Paediatric Emergencies Guide
‘Paediatric Emergencies Guide’ provides the healthcare professional with useful information on Paediatric Emergencies and it has been designed to complement our internationally recognised website, podcast and courses. It contains a collection of educational resources organised into sections to aid rapid access to essential information depending on the clinical environment e.g. Emergency Department (ED), Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
The application covers the following emergencies:
• Anaesthesia
• Analgesia
• Anaphylaxis
• Asthma
• Bradycardia
• Bronchiolitis
• Burns
• Cardiac Arrest
• Coma
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Croup
• Diabetic Ketoacidosis
• Head Injury
• Hyperkalaemia
• Hypertensive Crises
• Hypoglycaemia
• Hypokalaemia
• Hypomagnesaemia
• Hyponatraemia
• Hypophosphataemia
• Hypotension
• Intravenous Fluids
• Local Anaesthetic Toxicity
• Malaria
• Malignant Hyperthermia
• Meningitis/Encephalitis
• Normal Physiological Values
• Poisoning
• Raised Intracranial Pressure
• Sedation
• Sepsis
• Status Epilepticus
• Supraventricular Tachycardia
• Trauma
• Ventricular Tachycardia
It includes algorithms from the following organisations:
Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG), Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (BSPED), British Thoracic Society (BTS), College of Emergency Medicine (CEM), Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPSNI), Difficult Airway Society (DAS), Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF), National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), National Tracheostomy Safety Project (NTSP), Paediatric Accident and Emergency Research Group, Resuscitation Council (UK), Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (RBHSC), Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines (SIGN), Society of Critical Care Medicine and Toward Optimized Practice (TOP).
