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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 …
  • Engaging with and assessing the adolescent patient
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Engaging_with_and_assessing_the_adolescent_patient/
    Jaworska, N et al. Adolescence as a unique developmental period. Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience: JPN … Physician. 2011. 40: 159-160. Jaworska, N et al. Adolescence as a unique developmental period. Journal …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • Headache
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Headache/
    or progressive worsening Focal neurological symptoms New onset seizures Developmental regression Features …
  • 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 …
  • Chest pain
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Chest_pain/
    older children with developmental impairment Might present days to weeks after event Persistent cough …

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.