Acute Care & Emergency
Key resources
- ACEM – Australasian College for Emergency Medicine !
- Australian Resuscitation Council !
- ANZCOR resuscitation and first aid guidelines !
- Clinical Practice Guidelines (paediatric emergency) !
- LITFL – Life in the Fast Lane (emergency & critical care) !
- LITFL Critical Care Compendium !
- Don't Forget the Bubbles (paediatric emergency) !
- Guidelines on implementation of the Australasian Triage Scale !
Resuscitation (BLS / ALS) cardiac arrest, CPR, advanced life support, basic life support, paediatric resuscitation, newborn resuscitation 9
- Adult advanced life support flowchart !
- Paediatric advanced life support flowchart !
- Basic life support flowchart !
- Newborn life support flowchart !
- Guideline 11.2 – protocols for adult advanced life support !
- Resuscitation: hospital management of cardiopulmonary arrest (children) !
- Emergency medication and resuscitation resources (children) !
- Post cardiac arrest care !
- How to perform CPR !
Anaphylaxis adrenaline, EpiPen, ASCIA action plan, allergic reaction 10
- ASCIA guidelines – acute management of anaphylaxis !
- ASCIA Action Plan for Anaphylaxis !
- Guidelines for adrenaline device prescription !
- Anaphylaxis flowchart !
- Refractory anaphylaxis flowchart !
- Anaphylaxis: emergency management for health professionals (2022) !
- Anaphylaxis – clinical guideline (children) !
- First aid for anaphylaxis !
- Allergic and anaphylactic reactions – fact sheet !
- Anaphylaxis !
Chest pain & acute coronary syndrome acute coronary syndrome, ACS, myocardial infarction, STEMI, NSTEMI, heart attack 7
Sepsis septic shock, septicaemia, meningococcal sepsis, fever and petechiae 8
Acute asthma asthma attack, severe asthma, status asthmaticus, asthma first aid 9
- Acute asthma – Australian Asthma Handbook !
- Managing acute asthma in adults and adolescents in primary care !
- Managing acute asthma in adults and adolescents in the ED !
- Managing acute asthma in children 6–11 years in primary care !
- Acute asthma – clinical guideline (children) !
- Acute severe asthma !
- Acute asthma (paediatrics) !
- Asthma first aid !
- Asthma attack management !
Head injury traumatic brain injury, TBI, concussion, CT head rules, PECARN, PREDICT 9
- Australian and NZ guideline for mild to moderate head injuries in children !
- Head injury – clinical guideline (children) !
- Head injury – who to scan? !
- Traumatic brain injury assessment !
- First aid management of head injury !
- Head injury – fact sheet !
- Head injury – return to school and sport !
- Head injuries !
- Concussion !
Burns scald, burn first aid, burn assessment, severe burns 10
- Burns – clinical guideline (children) !
- Burns – post acute care and dressings !
- Management of burns !
- Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB) course !
- First aid for burns !
- Burns !
- Minor burn management: potions and lotions (2015) !
- Burns first aid !
- Burns prevention and first aid – fact sheet !
- Burns and scalds !
Poisoning & overdose overdose, toxicology, paracetamol overdose, toxidrome, opioid overdose, naloxone, tricyclic overdose 10
- Poisons Information Centre !
- Poisoning – acute guidelines for initial management (children) !
- Toxidromes !
- Updated guidelines for paracetamol poisoning in Australia and NZ (MJA 2020) !
- Toxicology library !
- Toxicological risk assessment !
- Paediatric toxicology – accidental overdoses !
- Naloxone for opioid toxicity and overdose in the community (2021) !
- Poisoning – first aid !
- Poisoning !
Snake, spider & marine envenomation snakebite, snake bite, spider bite, redback, dugite, brown snake, antivenom, pressure immobilisation, jellyfish sting, Irukandji 24
- Envenomation – pressure immobilisation technique !
- First aid for bites and stings (WA) !
- Bites and stings !
- Bites and stings !
Snakebite snake bite, brown snake, dugite, tiger snake, venom detection kit, antivenom 8
Spider bite redback, funnel-web, white-tailed spider, big black spider 7
Marine envenomation jellyfish, bluebottle, Irukandji, box jellyfish, stonefish 5
Major trauma primary survey, secondary survey, haemorrhage control, cervical spine injury, traumatic cardiac arrest, multitrauma 9
- Major paediatric trauma – the primary survey !
- Major paediatric trauma – the secondary survey !
- Cervical spine assessment (children) !
- Initial trauma assessment !
- Major haemorrhage in trauma !
- Guideline 11.10.1 – cardiac arrest due to trauma !
- First aid for management of bleeding !
- Cervical spine injuries module !
- Major trauma (paediatric) archive !
ECG emergencies STEMI ECG, hyperkalaemia ECG, ventricular tachycardia, complete heart block, Brugada, Wellens, torsades de pointes, SVT 10
Procedural skills intraosseous access, lumbar puncture, procedural sedation, laceration repair, chest drain, nerve block 9
Acute behavioural disturbance agitation, severe agitation, sedation for agitation, code grey, mental health emergency 6
Environmental emergencies (drowning, heat, cold) heat stroke, hyperthermia, hypothermia, near drowning, heat illness 5
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