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Guideline Updates

Saturday, October 13, 2007

$\"\"$ ...has published its update of the Head Injury guidelines. Not a huge amount of difference at first glance. Some \"tidying up\" of the algorithms and a separate paeds algorithm though. And according to NICE, some other things to note are:

All patients presenting to an emergency department with a head injury should be assessed by a trained member of staff within 15 minutes of arrival at hospital

For patients with specified risk factors, computed tomography (CT) imaging of the head should be performed and results analysed within 1 hour of the request having been received by the radiology department

Children aged under 10 who are in a coma should have CT imaging of the cervical spine within 1 hour of presentation or as soon as they are sufficiently stable

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SIGN/British Thoracic Society have come up with a revision to the Asthma guidelines - mainly just the pharmacology chapter.

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