RCH Infectious Diseases Guidelines

Key guidelines:

• Antifungal prophylaxis
• Antifungal prophylaxis table
• COVID-19
• Perinatal infections guidelines (ANZPID)
• Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) guideline
  
• Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis guidelines
  
  

Guidelines within publications:

• BCG for travel
• Community-acquired needle stick injury
• Prophylaxis of household contacts of patients with invasive group A streptococcal disease
• Kawasaki disease - diagnosis
• Kawasaki disease - aspirin dose
• Pulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus complex in children with cystic fibrosis
  

RCH Dept of General Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines relating to Infectious Diseases

The following list is a subset of the large number of  clinical practice guidelines (CPG) available from the RCH Department of General Medicine:

• Febrile neutropenia
• Pertussis (whooping cough)

Other RCH Guidelines relating to Infectious Diseases

• Antifungal
  • Antifungal prophylaxis
  • Itraconazole Use and Monitoring

External Guidelines

Staphylococcal diseases  

• PVL-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections 
• PVL-associated Staphylococcus aureus   (CDC 2006)
  

Tuberculosis and BCG

• Victorian guidelines (Dept of Health 2015)
• UK guidelines (NICE 2011)

Other Resources

• Dept of Health
  • The Blue Book
  • School exclusions
  • Notifications procedures for infectious diseases
    
    
    
• Other
  • Intravenous Immunoglobulin Guidelines