Guideline
Updated guideline: paediatric emergency triage, assessment and treatment: care of critically-ill children
- Cardiac arrest and resuscitation
- Cardiovascular
- Fluids and electrolytes
- Infection and sepsis
- Medical
- Neurology
- Non-invasive ventilation and high flow
- Nursing
- Professional practice
- Respiratory
- Shock
- Status epilepticus
This guideline is from 2016, more than five years ago. Check whether a newer version exists and which version your unit follows.
Summary
WHO's updated Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) guideline addresses the recognition and initial management of critically ill infants and children in low-resource settings, where many deaths occur in the first 24 hours of admission. It updates selected 2005 recommendations in three priority areas: detection of hypoxaemia and oxygen therapy (initiation, discontinuation and delivery methods), intravenous fluid management for impaired circulation or shock, and treatment of seizures and altered consciousness, including anticonvulsants and prevention of recurrent febrile seizures. Recommendations were developed by an international group using systematic reviews and GRADE, and are aimed at policy-makers, programme managers and frontline providers. It complements rather than replaces existing ETAT guidance and is intended for local adaptation.
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