Clinical Guidelines

This page contains best practice guidelines produced by CEC and evidence based guidelines produced by the GEMNet subcommittee.

• H1N1 influenza: Principles and resources for EDs (last updated 4^th Jan 2011)

CEC Position Statements

• Providing pre-transfusion blood samples for police (October 2011)

• HIV Testing in the Emergency Department  (June 2011)

• Triage (April 2011) - published by CEC, ENCA, FEN & RCN

• Alcohol related harms (Sept 2010)

• Unscheduled Care Facilities ( 2009) - Minimum requirements for units which see the less seriously ill or injured. Published by CEC, ENCA, FEN & RCN

CEC Best Practice Guidelines

• Clinical guideline use in the Emergency Department (August 2011)

• Management of Adult Patients who attend Emergency Departments after Sexual Assault and / or Rape (June 2011)

• Cervical Spine: Management of alert, adult patients with potential cervical spine injury in the Emergency Department (November 2010)
  • Practical guide - a short summary of the above c-spine guideline

• Domestic Violence: Recognition and Management in Emergency Departments (June 2010)

• Management of Pain in Adults (June 2010)

• Management of Pain in Children (May 2010)

• Intravenous Regional Anaesthesia for Distal Forearm Fractures (Bier’s Block) (May 2010)

• CEM response to NICE guideline CG92: Venous thromboembolism (April 2010)

• Information sharing to reduce Community Violence (Sept 2009 - updated May 2010 and Aug 2011)

• Ketamine Sedation of Children in Emergency Departments (Sept 2009)

• Safeguarding Children (June 2009)

• Antidote Availability and Treatment Guideline (2008)
  • CEM Antidote Guidelines 2008 Introduction
  • CEM Antidote Guidelines 2008
  • CEM Antidote Guidelines 2008 Appendix 1
  • CEM Antidote Guidelines 2008 Appendix 2

GEMNet guidelines

Go to the GEMNet subcommittee page for more information about GEMNet

The following completed evidence-based guidelines have been published in December 2009. These are guidelines for the management of:

• Acute allergic reaction - (Flowchart)

• First seizure in the ED - (Flowchart)

• Lone acute severe headache - (Flowchart)

• Tricyclic Antidepressant Overdose - (Flowchart)