PAEDIATRICS Guidelines. Bedsides 2022-2024
Updated: Jun 15
CONTENT
ANAESTHETICS AND CRITICAL CARE
APLS – Cardiorespiratory arrest
APLS – Recognition and assessment of the sick child
Brief resolved unexplained episode (BRUE)
Intraosseous infusion
Intravenous fluid therapy
Long line insertion
Monitoring ex-prem infants and neonates aged <1 month post general anaesthetic
Pain assessment
Post-operative nausea and vomiting aged >2 yr
Pre-operative fasting
Sedation
BREATHING (RESPIRATORY DISEASE)
Cystic fibrosis – Admission
Cystic fibrosis – Distal intestinal obstruction syndrome (DIOS)
Cystic fibrosis – Exacerbation
Cystic fibrosis – Microbiology
Pleural effusion
Pneumonia
Pneumothorax
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Cardiac arrhythmias (previously Tachycardia and bradycardia)
Cyanotic congenital heart disease – see Neonatal guidelines
Palpitations
Syncope
COMMUNITY
Abdominal pain
Acute asthma
Bronchiolitis aged <2 yr
Child development
Croup aged 3 months
Fever
Gastroenteritis
Head injury
DRUGS AND POISONING
Poisoning and drug overdose
ENDOCRINE/METABOLISM
GASTROENTEROLOGY
Jaundice in neonates
Nutritional first line advice
Obesity
Vitamin D deficiency
HAEMATOLOGY
Bleeding disorders in children
Blood and platelet transfusions
Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
INFECTION
Hepatitis B and C
HIV and hepatitis B post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)
HIV testing
Immunodeficiency
Infection in the returning traveller
Infection prevention
Kawasaki disease
Lyme disease
Malaria
Meningitis
Notifiable infectious diseases and food poisoning
Orbital cellulitis
Osteomyelitis and septic arthritis
Petechial/purpuric rashes
Sepsis (including meningococcal)
Tuberculosis
Vancomycin
NEUROLOGY
RENAL
Hypertension
Nephrotic syndrome
Renal calculi
Renal investigations
Urinary tract infection
RHEUMATOLOGY
Limping child
SAFEGUARDING
Self-harm
