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An alphabetical list of clinical guidelines produced by external organisations that are relevant to Emergency Medicine. Please use the "On this page" menu to go to the section required.

External Guidance

Included below is a list of clinical guidelines produced by external organisations that are relevant to Emergency Medicine. This page is regularly reviewed and updated by the QEC Best Practice subcommittee. If you would like to recommend guidelines for publication here or have any other queries in regards to the external organisation clinical guidelines, please email alison.ives@rcem.ac.uk

Shown below are the topics listed in alphabetical order within this section. Please use the “On this page” menu to go the section required.

NHS Evidence

NHS Evidence provides health and social care professionals with access to relevant and high quality information including the latest guidelines, high quality patient information, research uncertainties and other selected information across a wide range of conditions and specialties.

A

+ Abdominal + Acute Coronary Syndrome

Acute Coronary Syndrome

+ Acutely ill patients

Acutely ill patients

+ Anthrax + Arrhythmia

Arrhythmia

+ Asthma/Respiratory Disease

Asthma/Respiratory Disease

+ Atrial fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation

C

+ Carbon Monoxide

Carbon Monoxide

+ Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) + Cellulitis + Chest pain + Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) + Complex regional pain syndrome

Complex regional pain syndrome

+ Concussion

Concussion

+ Confidentiality

Confidentiality

+ Coronavirus COVID-19

E

+ ED Care and Service Delivery

ED Care and Service Delivery

+ Ebola + End of life + Endocrinology

Endocrinology

G

+ Gastro-Intestinal

Gastro-Intestinal

H

+ Handover

Handover

+ Head injury

Head injury

+ Headache + Hip Fracture

Hip Fracture

+ Hospital Discharge + Hypertension

I

+ Infectious diseases

Infectious diseases

+ Intravenous Fluid Therapy

Intravenous Fluid Therapy

M

+ Major Trauma

Major Trauma

+ MEED: Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders (May 2022)

MEED: Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders (Updated May 2022)

+ Meningitis

Meningitis

+ Mental Health

Mental Health (see also RCEM mental health toolkit, Self-Harm and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

P

+ Paediatric EM + Parkinson's + Pneumonia

Pneumonia

 

+ Police Liaison + Post traumatic stress disorder

Post traumatic stress disorder

+ Pregnancy + Pre-hospital

Pre-hospital

+ Pulmonary embolism

S

+ Safeguarding children

Safeguarding children

+ Sedation + Seizure + Self-harm + Sepsis

Sepsis

+ Sickle cell

Sickle cell

+ Stroke/TIA

Stroke/TIA

 

+ Syringe labelling in anaesthesia & critical care areas: Updated September 2022

Syringe labelling in anaesthesia and critical care areas: review 2022

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