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Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • Child abuse
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Child_abuse/
    tissue disease, developmental disorders Prior contact with child protection agencies and police … with the child’s age or developmental capabilities History does not easily account for the findings Inconsistent …
  • Acute behavioural disturbance: Acute management
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Acute_behavioural_disturbance__Acute_management/
    disturbance: Acute management PIC Endorsed See also Autism and developmental disability: Management … reactions, such as increased agitation and anxiety, may occur in children with autism or developmental delay …
  • Acute pain management
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Acute_pain_management/
    experience of pain and subsequent medical encounters and can negatively impact healing and developmental … interventions Enquire about pain level using age and developmentally appropriate language, eg in younger …
  • Chloral Hydrate Poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Chloral_Hydrate_Poisoning/
    developmental age is inconsistent with accidental poisoning, Risk Assessment History Intentional overdose …
  • Cerebral Palsy - Increased Seizures
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Cerebral_Palsy_Increased_Seizures/
    . Long-term prognosis of epilepsy in patients with cerebral palsy. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology …
  • Camphor poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Camphor_poisoning/
    Any patient whose developmental age is inconsistent with accidental poisoning as non-accidental …
  • Hydrocarbon poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Hydrocarbon_poisoning/
    or significant accidental exposure Any symptomatic patient Any patient whose developmental age is inconsistent …
  • Phenytoin poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Phenytoin_poisoning/
    ingestion of unknown quantity Any child where the developmental age is inconsistent with accidental …
  • Febrile seizure
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Febrile_seizure/
    afebrile seizures  progressive neurological conditions  developmental delay or regression   Management …
  • Metabolic disorders
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Metabolic_disorders/
    and seizures Presentation may also be more insidious: Developmental delay or regression Coarsening of features …

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.