Paediatrics
The ECI, along with NSW Health, endorses the Interstate Clinical Practice Guidelines developed and governed by the Paediatric Improvement Collaborative (PIC). This information bulletin outlines more information on the collaboration.
 | Royal Children's Hospital Clinical Practice Guidelines |
Below outlines other resources that sit outside the PIC Clinical Practice Guidelines and include NSW Health policies and other useful resources.
Topics covered are:
General Resources
- Paediatric Emergency Algorithms - The Sydney Children's Hospital Network (VPN required)
- Peadiatric policies and frameworks -NSW Health
- NSW Clinical Excellence Commission Paediatric Program
- Surgery for Children in Metropolitan Sydney ED Algorithm -NSW Health
- NSW Perinatal Post Mortem Service
- Don't Forget The Bubbles
- United States: National Paediatric Readiness Project
- Free Online Parent CPR Modules - developed by Kids Health at Children's Hospital Westmead
- The Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative - PREDICT
Patient fact sheets
- Popular paediatric factsheets
- The Children's Hospital Westmead Kids Health Factsheets
- Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Factsheets
- HNEkidshealth - Hunter Children's Health Network Factsheets
- Sydney Children's Hospital Network Factsheets
- Anaphylaxis Factsheet for Parents with Children at Risk of Anaphylaxis (produced by ASCIA and available in other languages)
- CT scans for children: Information for referrers - produced by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), March 2016
- Procedural Sedation (produced by Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne)
Airway Management
- Airway Management -ECI Clinical Tool
Advanced life support
- Standards for Paediatric Intravenous Fluids - NSW Health policy
- Anaphylaxis -ECI Clinical Tool
- Angioedema -ECI Clinical Tool
- Advanced Paediatric Life Support - Paediatric Algorithms
- Australian Resus Council Guidelines
Australian Resus Counci - Paediatric ALS Flowchart
RESUS4KIDS - Paediatric Life Support for Health Care Rescuers Algorithm
Drug Calculators and Charts
- Neonatal Jaundice Treatment Threshold Graphs
- Sydney Children's Hospital Paediatric Patient Drug Calculator - (VPN required)
Deteriorating Patients
- DETECT Junior is part of the state-wide Between the Flags education program and is specifically designed for front line clinical staff who care for infants and children to help them:
- Improve recognition and management of infants and children who are clinically deteriorating
- Know when to activate the Clinical Emergency Response System (CERS)
- Develop a co-ordinated approach to caring for infants and children who are clinically deteriorating
- DETECT Junior e-learning module
- Emergency Department and standard paediatric observation chart and the vital signs
Ear, Nose and throat
- SW Health policy
- Sore ear -NSW Health policy
- Foreign body in the nose – Emergency management in children - Queensland Health
Mental Health
Neurology / Head Injury
- Paediatric Epilepsy Network NSW
- Epilepsy Australia
- Management of children with acute behavioural disturbances
- Acute Management of the Unsettled and Crying Infant Guideline
- Altered Consciousness in Emergency Departments
- Head Injury Guidelines - PREDICT
Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal
- Management of Infants and Children with Congenital Talipes Equinovarus
- Children limb splints - from Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick
- Paediatric Fracture Guidelines, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
- Sydney Children's Hospital Network Fracture Management
Procedural Sedation
- Ketamine Use in ED - Sydney Children's Hospital Drug Protocol
- Paediatric Procedural Sedation - Guide for Emergency Departments, Wards, Clinics and Imaging
Respiratory
Rural
Sepsis
Toxicology
- National Capital Poison Centre - Button Batteries injestion, triage and treatment guideline
- St. Emlyn's - Button Batteries in the Emergency Department
- Envenomation
- Paracetamol Overdose
- NSW Poisons Information Centre
Transfer, discharge and referral
- Critical Care Tertiary Referral Networks - Paediatrics
- Inter-Facility Transfers
- Emergency Paediatric Referrals
- NETS: Vision for Life - Dr Andrew Berry from the Newborn and paediatric Emergency Transport Service (NETS) gave a presentation at the ECI ED Leadership Forum 13 March 2015
Presentations
- Clinical Practice in Focus: Children and Neonates at the ECI Nursing Leadership Forum 27 May 2016
- New paediatric guidelines, Joanne White, Senior Analyst, Paediatric Healthcare, Office of Kids and Families, NSW Ministry of Health at the ECI ED Leadership Forum 1 April 2016
- Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy: New Policy, Ms April Deering at the ECI ED Leadership Forum 13 March 2015
- PREDICT: Improving emergency care for children and adolescents through rigorous research - A/Prof Ed Oakley at the ECI Emergency Care Symposium 2016