RCH logo

Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • Neonatal intravenous fluids
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Neonatal_intravenous_fluids/
    Premade bags are preferable to reduce dose error or infection during mixing or dilution  Availability …
  • 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 …
  • Unsettled or crying babies
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Crying_Baby_Infant_Distress/
    or inflicted injury, see Child abuse Infection, see Sepsis Hair tourniquet Corneal foreign body/abrasion, see …
  • Headache
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Headache/
    in children, while less common but serious causes include CNS infection (meningitis, encephalitis), raised …
  • Constipation
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Constipation/
      Abdominal pain Urinary incontinence Urinary tract infections Key points Constipation is a common condition …
  • Burns - acute management
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Burns/
    chloramphenicol to prevent secondary infection Urgent ophthalmology review Limb burns Elevate the limb Monitor …
  • Blood product prescription
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Blood_product_prescription/
    Mucositis Fever Sepsis/infection Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy APML Anticoagulation 20 x 10 9 /L …
  • Fascia iliaca block of the femoral nerve
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Fascia_iliaca_block_of_the_femoral_nerve/
    to theatre Contraindications Local anaesthetic allergy/anaphylaxis Open wound or signs of infection …
  • Intravenous fluids
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Intravenous_fluids/
    in African children with severe infection’. N Engl J Med. vol 364 pg 2483-2495  McNab S, Duke T, South M, et …
  • Micronutrient deficiency
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Micronutrient_deficiency/
    to infection Poor growth Malabsorption eg exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, chronic liver disease, short bowel …