The American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) · Current ABA-linked Initial Certification Content Outline, ADVANCED Exam Blueprint and APPLIED OSCE Content Outline, checked 2026-10-09. DABA maps to the issuer's D.ABA diplomate credential earned through initial certification, not a separate examination. Written-content sampling follows the ADVANCED blueprint. The blueprint has no visible revision date; PDF cover dates could not be independently read through the browser extraction. The opened OSCE outline explicitly identifies testing additions beginning in 2026, 2027 and 2028.

This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.

• Newly Certified
• Begin Certification
• ADVANCED Exam
• Initial Certification in Anesthesiology: Content Outline
• ADVANCED Exam Blueprint
• APPLIED Exam
• APPLIED Exam: OSCE Content Outline
• Cochrane Handbook, Chapter 15: Interpreting Results and Drawing Conclusions
• Standards for Basic Anesthetic Monitoring
• Checklist for Treatment of Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity
• ASRA Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity Checklist, 2020 v1.1
• APSF Update: 2022 ASA Difficult Airway Guidelines
• Monitoring and Antagonism of Neuromuscular Blockade
• ATS/ESICM/SCCM Guideline: Mechanical Ventilation in Adult ARDS
• Acute Kidney Injury and Acute Kidney Disease
• KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Kidney Injury, 2012
• AABB: Updates in Red Blood Cell Transfusion Thresholds
• Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Adult Guidelines 2026
• SSC 2026 Quick Guide for Resuscitation and Hemodynamic Support
• SOAP Consensus Statement: Neuraxial Procedures in Obstetric Patients with Thrombocytopenia
• MHAUS: Managing a Crisis
• IASP Terminology
• Brain Trauma Foundation: Severe TBI Guidelines, Fourth Edition
• Perioperative Pain Management Using Local and Regional Analgesia
• Recommendations May Help Reduce Delirium in Older Patients Having Surgery
• Perioperative Medicine Designated as a New Clinical Topic to Enhance Anesthesiology Board Certification Exams
• An Update on Management of Adult Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline
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• practice-guidelines-for-the-perioperative-management-of-patients-with-obstructive-sleep-apnea.pdf
• Benefits and Risks | FDA
• Peri-Procedural Management of Bleeding Risk in Cirrhosis | AASLD
• Management_of_Adult_Patients_Supported_with.1.pdf
• ASRA Practice Advisory on Neurologic Complications in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine - PMC
• acog_clinical_practice_guideline_no_.22.pdf
• aa_1_1_2025_09_14_gan_aa-d-25-00465_sdc1.pdf
• 259-Full-report.pdf
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• Client Challenge