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Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • Emergency airway management
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Emergency_airway_management/
    in the absence of burns to the face Acquired conditions  Pre-surgical Airway burns / trauma / infections …
  • Autism and developmental disability: Management of distress/agitation
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Autism_and_developmental_disability__Management_of_distress/agitation/
    for potential sources of infection Consider changes in bowel habit, particularly constipation Examination …
  • Acute eye injury
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Acute_eye_injury/
    corneal infections (bacterial keratitis), see Acute red eye Assessment The principles of eye trauma …
  • Non-IgE mediated food allergy
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Non-IgE_mediated_food_allergy/
    solids) Underlying immune-deficiency Infection (sepsis, meningitis, UTI, gastroenteritis) Pyloric …
  • Intravenous access - Peripheral
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Intravenous_access_Peripheral/
    Thrombophlebitis / infection Unsuccessful procedure Equipment, Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Sedation The patient …
  • Neonatal intravenous fluids
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Neonatal_intravenous_fluids/
    or infection during mixing or dilution Consider Parenteral Nutrition (PN) if it is anticipated that enteral …
  • Unsettled or crying babies
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Crying_Baby_Infant_Distress/
    inguinal hernia  Urinary tract infection Hair tourniquet Corneal foreign body/abrasion Common …
  • Burns - Acute Management
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Burns/
    secondary infection Urgent paediatric ophthalmology review Limb burns Elevate the limb Monitor perfusion …
  • Ketamine use for procedural sedation
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Ketamine_use_for_procedural_sedation/
    respiratory illness, eg asthma, respiratory tract infection Known difficult airway, history of previous airway …
  • Enuresis - Bed wetting and Monosymptomatic Enuresis
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Enuresis_-_Bed_wetting_and_Monosymptomatic_Enuresis/
    and constipation History of recurrent urinary tract infections Comorbidities such as type 1 diabetes, physical …

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.