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Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • Infantile Spasms
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Infantile_Spasms/
    and managed as per the Sepsis Guideline . Consider infectious disease consultation If there is vomiting …
  • Acute scrotal pain or swelling
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Acute_scrotal_pain_or_swelling/
    Unusual Unusual Common Unusual Nausea and vomiting Common (90%) Common Uncommon Uncommon Uncommon Dysuria …
  • Dehydration
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Dehydration/
    to normal output pattern Ask about excessive losses (eg vomiting, frequent urination or diarrhoea) Recent …
  • Emergency airway management in COVID-19 context
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Emergency_airway_management_in_COVID-19_context/
    prophylaxis to minimise crying / screaming Consider additional anti-emesis to avoid vomiting If upper airway …
  • Ethanol poisoning
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Ethanol_Posioning/
    vasodilation, or secondary to volume loss, eg from vomiting Hypothermia may occur due to vasodilatation …
  • Hypernatraemia
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Hypernatraemia/
    : Vomiting, muscular twitching, fever, doughy skin High pitched crying and tachypnoea in infants Severe signs …
  • Resuscitation: Hospital Management of Cardiopulmonary Arrest
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Resuscitation__Hospital_Management_of_Cardiopulmonary_Arrest/
    /blood/vomit B  – Breathing Look for chest rise and fall and auscultate Commence artificial ventilation …
  • Immune thrombocytopenic purpura
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Immune_thrombocytopenic_purpura/
    , vomiting, lethargy, irritability, decreased consciousness or neurological symptoms Preceding viral …
  • Acute meningococcal disease
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Acute_meningococcal_disease/
    hours) of headache, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, sore throat and coryza Fever Infants may have …
  • Immigrant health - acute presentations
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Immigrant_Health_acute_presentations/
    /vomiting, family history Hepatitis Abdominal pain Immigrant health – Intestinal Parasites Immigrant health …

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which the RCH is situated, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which the RCH is situated, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which the RCH is situated, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.