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Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • Burns - Acute Management
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Burns/
    cleaning face Chloramphenicol ointment to eye and ear burns Perineal burns are at risk of contamination … Following burns: >10% TBSA All full thickness Special areas: face, ears, eyes, neck, hands, feet, genitalia … secondary infection Urgent paediatric ophthalmology review Limb burns Elevate the limb Monitor perfusion …
  • Adrenal crisis and acute adrenal insufficiency
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Adrenal_crisis_and_acute_adrenal_insufficiency/
    , admit for ongoing parenteral hydrocortisone   Mildly unwell For example, respiratory or ear infection …,  confusion, seizure  Fever, screen for infective symptoms or injury as a trigger for presentation Known …
  • Ketamine use for procedural sedation
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Ketamine_use_for_procedural_sedation/
    of foreign bodies from eye, ear, nose, skin where nitrous oxide has been or is likely to be inadequate … respiratory illness, eg asthma, respiratory tract infection Known difficult airway, history of previous airway …

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.