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Emergency Department Handbook

These guidelines have been written to provide you with guidance in the management of the wide spectrum of conditions that you are likely to meet during your time in the Department. The central aim is to provide high quality and evidence based care where this is available as well as information on the practicalities of follow up for patients

Admin Guidelines

  1. Introduction
  2. StaffingGeneral Managerial and Administrative Issues
  3. Educational Opportunities
  4. Triage
  5. EAU Admission Criteria 
  6. Note Keeping and documentation
  7. Clinical Guidelines, Protocols and Flow Charts
  8. Investigations
  9. Out-Patients 
  10. Ward 1 - Admissions and observations
  11. Prescribing
  12. Discharges
  13. Referrals
  14. Transfers and Pitfalls 
  15. Accident & Emergency Department Clinics 
  16. Social Problems
  17. Major Incident Procedure 
  18. The Police, The Coroner and The Law
  19. Useful Telephone Numbers
  20. The Coding system

 

Emergency Medicine

  1. Introduction
  2. Cardiovascular
    1. Acute Coronary Syndromes
    2. Acute Left Ventricular Failure
    3. Cardiac Arrhythmias
    4. Aortic Dissection
  3. Anaphylaxis
  4. Respiratory
    1. Asthma
    2. Spontaneous Pneumothorax
    3. Pulmonary Embolus
    4. Chronic obstructive Pulmonary disease
    5. Pneumonia
  5. Gastroenterology
    1. GI Bleed
    2. Acute Liver Failure
  6. Diabetes
  7. Infectious Diseases
    1. Malaria
    2. Diarrhoea & Vomiting
    3. Needle stick injuries
  8. Neurology
    1. Assessment of Coma
    2. Headache
    3. Meningitis
    4. TIA / Stroke
  9. Haematology DVT
  10. Hypothermia
  11. Poisonings

 

General Surgery

 

Opthalmology / ENT / Obs & Gynae

  1. Ophthalmology
  2. ENT
  3. Obs & Gynae & GUM

Paediatrics

  1. Paediatric
    1. Data
    2. Limping

Psychiatry

  1. Role of the Mental Health Act

Appendices

  1. Guidelines for the structure of an educational project by junior medical staff in a&e medicine
  2. Guideline development and clinical effectiveness in the A&E department
  3. Processing of patients who are eligible for admission to CDU. 
  4. An A&E Users' Guide to the Medical Admissions Process
  5. Contacting the appropriate doctor to make a referral for a medical admission. 
  6. Guidelines for referral to an A&E Review Clinic . 
  7. The rapid response assessment team
  8. Development of emergency medicine ultrasound

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