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Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • Essential Oil Poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Essential_Oil_Poisoning/
    with pneumonitis. Antibiotics should be withheld until there is objective evidence of bacterial infection …
  • Adolescent gynaecology - heavy menstrual bleeding
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Adolescent_Gynaecology_Menorrhagia/
    Medication : hormonal contraception, anticoagulants Other : trauma, infection, malignancy, structural causes …
  • Abdominal pain - chronic
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Abdominal_pain_-_chronic/
    Family history of coeliac disease Parasitic infection (giardia) Loose, pale, greasy stools …
  • 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 …
  • Acute eye injury
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Acute_eye_injury/
    injury and delayed burns Contact lens-related corneal infections (bacterial keratitis), see Acute red eye …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • Hyperkalaemia
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Hyperkalaemia/
    Trauma Rhabdomyolysis (crush injury, convulsion, infection) Haemolysis Tumour lysis syndrome Burns …
  • Gastrooesophageal reflux disease in infants
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Gastrooesophageal_reflux_disease_in_infants/
    : can be seen in a variety of conditions, particularly bacterial infections, acute surgical causes, IBD …
  • 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 …