In our trust we don’t have paediatric critical care beds. However, in our region we use EMBRACE (a paediatric critical care transport team), who can transfer critically ill children to specialist centers (in or out of region).
Registered Medical Practitioners in England and Wales have a statutory duty to notify Public Health about the following diseases. To facilitate rapid treatment and control of outbreaks. (Links to Wikipedia for illustrative purposes) Read more
You need to be a bit more suspicious and have a lower threshold for investigation than in patients without Known, Suspected OR Previous Malignancy Read more
When giving blood products you need to use the transfusion care pathway.
It can be found on intranet > Policies & Documents Library >Other Systems [green button] > Clinical records repository > Search [title And transfusion] – its only 9 clicks away (and some writing)
To maintain or restore patency of the ductus arteriosus
Only to be used in infants who are ventilated or where ventilation is immediately available
DO NOT DELAY IN STARTING Alprostadil if: there is clinical
suspicion of duct dependent CHD while waiting for paediatric cardiology opinion OR echocardiogram, even when in-house echo facilities are present.
PDF: Alprostidil
(cross-site in the seminar rooms) Read more
Clavicle fracture is a common presentation and some patients can be managed at home without fracture clinic follow up.
When we need to book an MRI e.g. for Cauda Equina, we need to print the MRI Questionnaire and complete it!
Although, most of this is built in to the EPR request that is not good enough, so avoid delays and do the form
