Guidelines

  1. Cardiovascular and fluid

  2. Respiratory and Airway

  3. Neurological, Sedation and pain

  4. Renal and metabolic

  5. Gastrointestinal and nutrition

  6. Infection and Sepsis

  7. Haematology and transfusion

  8. Transplant and death

  9. Imaging and echocardiography

  10. Equipment and transfer

  11. Management, ethics and law

Equipment, monitoring and transfer guidelines

Equipment Oxylog setup, and use; from ConollyEM.com Monitoring National early warning score (RCP 2012) Consensus on circulatory shock and haemodynamic monitoring (ESC 2014) Acutely ill adults in hospital: recognising and responding to deterioration (NICE 2011) Transfer Inter-hospital transfer of the critically-ill patient in the Republic of Ireland AAGBI 2006 Inter-hospital transfer AAGBI 2009 Safety in MRI units 2010 …

Haematology and transfusion guidelines

Haemorrhage and transfusion Thrombosis and DIC Guidelines for venous thromboembolism in critical care ICS 2008 Guidelines on the management of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and other thrombotic microangiopathies Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of disseminated intravascular coagulation BCSH 2009 Guidelines on the use of caval filters (BCSH 2007) Guidelines on the investigation and managament of venuos …

Imaging and echocardiography guidelines

POCUS Training governance American Society of Echocardiography and Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Task Force Guidelines for Training in Perioperative Echocardiography – ASE/ACA 2012 International Consensus Statement on Training Standards for Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography 2014 SPOCUS guidelines Echocardiography Emergency Echocardiography – The European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging Recommendations 2013 Focused cardiac ultrasound – American Society of Echocardiography 2013 Clinical Recommendations …

Infection and sepsis guidelines

Sepsis Surviving sepsis Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016 Surviving sepsis 2016 – ppt presentation Sepsis definition Third international consensus definitions for sepsis and septic shock Diagnosis Procalcitonin (PCT)-guided antibiotic stewardship: an international experts consensus on optimized clinical use (European EFLM 2019) Other WHO and WHA – Recognizing …

Non-clinical guidelines

Non-clinical standards 7 steps to patient safety – NPSA 2004 Incident reporting – ICS 2006 Financial management – ICS 2007 Staffing Consultants – ICS 2007 Nurses – BACCN 2009 Equipment – ICS 2010 Structural and organizational standards – ESICM 2011 Ward rounds – RCP/RCN 2012 Core standards – ICS 2013 ICU evacuation – Chest consensus 2014 …

Obstetrics guidelines

PET   PPH Welsh A et al ‘Guidelines for the Use of Recombinant Activated Factor VII in Massive Obstetric Haemorrhage’. The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 48, no. 1 (February 2008): 12–16. doi:10.1111/j.1479-828X.2007.00823.x.

Renal, metabolic and toxins guidelines

Renal AKI Acute kidney injury: Prevention, detection and management of acute kidney injury up to the point of renal replacement therapy (NICE 2013) Prevention of acute kidney injury and protection of renal function in the intensive care unit: update 2017 (ESICM AKI group 2017) CIN Prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury in adults (RCR 2013) Standards for intravenous contrast …

Transplant and death guidelines

Thanatology (Death and dying) Bereavement – ICS 2003 UK Code of practice for the diagnosis and confirmation of death – AMRC 2008 DNAR in the perioperative period – AAGBI 2009 Determining brain death in adults – AAN 2010 Treatment and care towards the end of life – GMC 2010 Diagnosis of death by neurological examination – ODT …

Trauma and burns guidelines

General trauma NICE trauma guidelines 2016. (and Comment from St.Emlyn’s.) NHS guidelines for major incidents and mass casualty events 2018 Head injury Triage, assessment, investigation and early management of head injury in infants, children and adults  (NICE 2014) Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, 3rd edition (BTF  2007) Early Indicators of Prognosis in Severe Traumatic …

Cardiovascular and fluid guidelines

Fluid General Intravenous fluid therapy NICE guidelines (2013) and Quality Standards (2014) Peri-operative patient Giftasup (BAPEN) Consensus on IV fluid in surgical patients (rev 2011) Perioperative fluid management: Consensus statement from the enhanced recovery partnership (2012) Perioperative fluid therapy: a statement from the international Fluid Optimization Group 2015 Neuro-ICU patients Fluid therapy in the neurointensive …

Respiratory and airway guidelines

Airway guidelines Multidisciplinary guidelines for the management of tracheostomy and laryngectomy airway emergencies (NTSP 2012) NAP4 major airway complications guidelines (2013) Practice guidelines for the management of the difficult airway (ASA 2013) The Vortex approach to securing an airway 2013 The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 1 – Difficult tracheal intubation encountered in …

Gastrointestinal/abdominal and nutrition guidelines

Pancreatitis Liver failure Nutrition Glucose control Complicated intra-abdominal infection Gastrointestinal haemorrhage

Neurology, sedation and pain guidelines

Delirium Delirium: diagnosis, prevention and management  (NICE 2010 ) Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ACCM/SCCM 2013) Head/brain injury Head injury: early assessment and management  (NICE 2014) Early Indicators of Prognosis in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (BTF 2007) Joint position statement with regards to the calculation …