RCH logo

Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • Essential Oil Poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Essential_Oil_Poisoning/
    ingestion Any symptomatic patient Ingested dose >5 mL Any patient whose developmental age is inconsistent …
  • Procedural sedation
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Procedural_sedation/
    , anxiolysis, amnesia) and the following factors:   Child factors Age, compliance, developmental stage …
  • Foreign body ingestion
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Foreign_body_ingestion/
    , however the highest incidence is between the ages of 6 months and 3 years Children with developmental …
  • Family Violence
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Family_Violence/
    developmental milestones School aged child Recurrent abdominal pain and headache Regressed behaviours (eg …
  • Intravenous access - Peripheral
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Intravenous_access_Peripheral/
    Lidocaine 2.5% and Prilocaine 2.5% ( EMLA™® ): 60 minutes Explain what you are doing in a developmentally …
  • Slow weight gain
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Slow_weight_gain/
    (thighs), skin, hair, gums, eyes and nails Developmental level, caregiver-child interactions, signs …
  • Paracetamol poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Paracetamol_poisoning/
    whose developmental age is inconsistent with accidental poisoning as non-accidental poisoning should …
  • Headache
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Headache/
    or progressive worsening Focal neurological symptoms New onset seizures Developmental regression Features …
  • Engaging with and assessing the adolescent patient
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Engaging_with_and_assessing_the_adolescent_patient/
    . 40: 159-160. Jaworska, N et al. Adolescence as a unique developmental period. Journal of psychiatry …
  • Adrenal crisis and acute adrenal insufficiency
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Adrenal_crisis_and_acute_adrenal_insufficiency/
    irradiation or midline damage eg post pituitary surgery, midline tumours Developmental regression …

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.