WikiAnesthesia Style Guide

This page offers some guidance about writing for WikiAnesthesia in a way that maintains consistency throughout the site, ensures content is displayed optimally, and that it can be as useful as possible to those reading.

Wikianesthesia is made by its users, and so this style guide is not an inflexible set of rules! (Note that this is a wiki page just like any other, and can be edited by anyone).

General Advice

• WikiAnesthesia is intended to provide concise, clinically relevant information that is useful at the point of care, rather than a resource for studying/exam preparation or in-depth critical literature review.
  • If you would like to create other types of content please do so! - but keep it separate from clinical reference pages.
• There are disagreements and controversies within anesthesia, when this is the case try not to write prescriptive recommendations but instead acknowledge that differences of opinion exist and consider very briefly discussing the issue.

Referencing/Citations

• Those reading WikiAnesthesia can benefit from the know-how of experienced anesthesiologists, so if you are an expert in your field or have been taught by one please add your personal recommendations and cite yourself!
  • This approach may produce these effects (1) - 1: Expert, Professor; personal communication / User ID, Professor of Anesthesia; personal recommendation
  • Endorsing personal recommendations
  • If there is published work then please replace
• Citing single or small number of resources that are the basis for the entire article, rather than as references for individual sentences/paragraphs/sections

Structuring

e.g., general head and neck