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Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • Kawasaki disease
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Kawasaki_disease/
    Kawasaki disease …Clinical Practice Guidelines : Kawasaki disease …   >   Health Professionals   >   Clinical Practice Guidelines   >   Kawasaki disease In this section About …
  • Cervical lymphadenopathy
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Cervical_lymphadenopathy/
    Cervical lymphadenopathy Cervical lymphadenopathy PIC Endorsed See also Febrile Child Kawasaki Disease Key … with serious deep head and neck infections such a retropharyngeal abscess. Kawasaki disease Kawasaki disease … No investigations routinely required Unwell See Febrile child See Kawasaki Consider neck USS if suspected abscess …
  • Empiric treatment of infectious diseases in Ebola suspect
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Empiric_treatment_of_infectious_diseases_in_Ebola_suspect/
    : Antiviral_drug_doses_in_children_with_influenza Kawasaki disease IVIG 2 g/kg infusion over 10 hours and aspirin 3-5 mg/kg 24H Toxic shock syndrome …
  • Chest pain
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Chest_pain/
    /acquired cardiac disease Family history sudden cardiac death or arrhythmia History of Kawasaki disease … tissue disease eg Marfan, Ehlers-Danlos History of Kawasaki disease Known aortic root dilatation New … Cocaine, methamphetamine or synthetic cannabinoids use Known cardiac disease or cardiac surgery Kawasaki …
  • Febrile child
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Febrile_child/
    also Fever and suspected or confirmed neutropenia Fever in the recently returned traveller Kawasaki …  Kawasaki disease  or  PIMS-TS if there is a history of COVID-19 infection Other uncommon causes …
  • Serum Sickness and Serum Sickness like reactions (SSLRs)
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Serum_Sickness_and_Serum_Sickness_like_reactions_(SSLRs)/
    * Kawasaki disease Acute rheumatic fever   * Typically show involvement of mucous membranes Rash Fever …
  • Sepsis – assessment and management
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/SEPSIS_assessment_and_management/
    Crit Care Med 2005; 6:2. Kawasaki T, et al. Update on paediatric sepsis: a review. Journal of Intensive …
  • The acutely swollen joint
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/The_acutely_swollen_joint/
    inflammatory disorders Kawasaki disease Prolonged fever >5 days Rash, conjunctivitis, cervical lymphadenopathy …
  • Henoch-Schönlein purpura
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/HenochSchonlein_Purpura/
    , Southwood TR. Incidence of Henoch-Schonlein purpura, Kawasaki disease, and rare vasculitides in children …
  • Acute red eye
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Acute_red_eye/
    Periorbital cellulitis ) Systemic features of inflammation (eg suggestive of Kawasaki disease, PIMS-TS) Other …

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which the RCH is situated, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which the RCH is situated, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which the RCH is situated, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.