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  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • Cervical spine assessment
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Cervical_spine_assessment/
    by alcohol or recreational drugs not heavily sedated by analgesia or sedatives be developmentally able … be difficult due to pain, age or developmental state of the child and altered conscious state Concerning …
  • 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 …
  • 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/
    in children who have ingested more than 30 mg/kg Any patient whose developmental age is inconsistent …
  • Hydrocarbon poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Hydrocarbon_poisoning/
    Any patient whose developmental age is inconsistent with accidental poisoning as non-accidental …
  • Phenytoin poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Phenytoin_poisoning/
    ingestion Any symptomatic child Acute ingestion of unknown quantity Any child where the developmental age …
  • Chloral Hydrate Poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Chloral_Hydrate_Poisoning/
    Non-accidental poisoning should be considered in any patient whose developmental age is inconsistent …
  • 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 …