NSW junior doctors can find a wide range of useful resources using the ECI medical resource page and HETI internships homepage.  Our Acute Crisis Simulation Course also has a bunch of useful information free of charge.

Emergency “On the Floor” Resources

It is important to provide a good explanation and advice to your patient when discharging your patient.  Always hope for the best but make a plan for the worse.  Written instructions given to the patient to take home can complement a good verbal explanation.

Everyday Discharge Advice

• Discharge Pain Plan – PAIN PLAN

• Head Injury – Patient Advice (English)
  • Other Languages (external site)

More Discharge Advice Resources

• Abdominal pain (men) – discharge advice

• Abdominal pain (women) – discharge advice

• Ankle sprain (acute) – discharge advice

• Cellulitis – discharge advice

• Chest drain – leaving hospital discharge advice

• Chest drain after chest injury – discharge advice

• Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) – discharge advice

• Digital nerve block – discharge advice

• Dislocated shoulder – discharge advice

• Early Pregnancy Problem – discharge advice

• Hand (5th Metacarpal) Fracture – discharge advice

• Head Injury – discharge advice for adults

• Head Injury (NICE)

• Head Injury – discharge advice for patients over 12 years

• Head Injury – graded activities for return to sport – discharge advice

• Ketamine sedation (Children) – discharge advice

• Mallet Finger Injury – discharge advice

• Mallet Finger – discharge advice

• Pneumothorax – discharge advice

• Pretibial laceration (Lower Leg Wounds) – discharge advice

• Procedural Sedation – discharge advice for adults

• Procedural Sedation – discharge advice

• Radial Head/Neck Fracture – discharge advice

• Sedation – discharge advice

• Self discharge against advice (Refusal of treatment)

• Supra-ventricular tachycardia (SVT) – discharge advice

• Syncope – discharge advice

• Torus “Buckle” Fractures – discharge advice

 

Everyday Protocols

• Absconding

• Acute Coronary Syndrome

• Acute pulmonary oedema (treatment with CPAP)

• Allergic Reaction

• Asthma (moderate)

• Atrial Fibrillation

• Acute Atrial Fibrillation

• Burns Injury

• Cervical spine injury

• DVT

• Early pregnancy bleeding pathway

• Ectopic Pregnancy

• Ebola

• Ebola – personal protective equipment checklist

• Elderly falls/collapse

• Eyes

• Falls in older patients

• First Seizure

• Fractured Neck of Femur

• Head Injury

• Headache

• Hyponatraemia

• Mental health assessment form – adults

• Mental health risk assessment matrix

• Migraine

• Non-invasive ventilation (BiPAP) for COPD

• Paracetamol overdose

• Paracetamol poisoning guide ED

• Paracetamol poisoning – post NAC

• Pneumothorax

• Police custody

• Post-seizure

• Procedural sedation

• Pulmonary embolism

• Rapid sequence induction

• Red Eye Algorithm

• Referral of Patients from the Emergency Department (ED) to Specialist Teams

• Renal colic

• Sedation of adult patients

• Sedation

• Sepsis

• Sepsis pathway

• Severe Sepsis: recognition and management proforma

• Sore throat

• Subarachnoid haemorrhage

• SVT

• Syncope

• Syncope Flowchart

• Thromboprophylaxis

• Triage

• Ultrasound guided nerve block for hip and femoral fractures

• Vertigo flow chart

• Vertigo

• Emergency reversal of Oral Vitamin K antagonists for life threatening emergencies

Trauma

• Institute of Trauma and Injury Management (ITIM)
  • ITIM Overviews
  • Head Injury Overview
• Westmead Trauma App
  • I PHONE
  • ANDROID
• EAST Trauma Guidelines
  • Trauma Practice Guidelines
• Trauma.org
  • Main Page
• Trauma Team Training
  • Trauma – Rapid Summary Slides

 

• Trauma Lectures:

Recent Local Trauma Lectures (ITIM)

Resuscitation

• Australian Resuscitation Council
  • Main Page
  • Guidelines
• European Resuscitation Council
  • Main Page
  • ALS Manual
• Changes to the 2010 Guidelines
  • EMCRIT
  • LITFL
• Westmead Resuscitation Video

Cardiology

• NSW – Chest Pain Pathway
• ARC Guidelines for Acute Coronary Syndrome