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    Hypothermia: prevention and management in adults having surgery. Last updated: 2016

    This guideline covers preventing and managing inadvertent hypothermia in people aged 18 and over having surgery. It offers advice on assessing patients’ risk of hypothermia, measuring and monitoring temperature, and devices for keeping patients warm before, during and after surgery. In December 2016, w...

    HIV testing: increasing uptake among people who may have undiagnosed HIV

    This guideline covers how to increase the uptake of HIV testing in primary and secondary care, specialist sexual health services and the community. It describes how to plan and deliver services that are tailored to the local prevalence of HIV, promote awareness of HIV testing and increase opportunities t...

    Guía de práctica clínica para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de lumbalgia

    La lumbalgia es un síndrome muy prevalente en la población general, y en algunos casos se convierte en una patología crónica con múltiples limitaciones. La lumbalgia requiere un manejo interdisciplinario y complejo, y la pérdida laboral de horas-hombre es alta. Debido a estas consideraciones, el Si...

    IV Spanish Consensus Conference on Helicobacter pylori infection treatment

    Gastroenterol. hepatol; 39 (10), 2016
    Helicobacter pylori approximately infect 50% of Spanish population and causes chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. Until now, three consensus meetings on H.pylori infection had been performed in Spain (the last in 2012). The changes in the treatment schemes, and the increasing available ev...

    End of life care for infants, children and young people with life-limiting conditions: planning and management

    This guideline covers the planning and management of end of life and palliative care in for infants, children and young people (aged 0–17 years) with life-limiting conditions. It aims to involve children, young people and their families in decisions about their care, and improve the support that is ava...

    Fibrosis quística: aspectos broncopulmonares

    Objetivos: Generar recomendaciones basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible acerca del tamizaje y diagnóstico de la Fibrosis Quística; Generar recomendaciones basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible acerca de las distintas opciones de tratamiento de las manifestaciones respiratorias de la Fibrosis Qu...

    Salud oral en adolescentes de 10-19 años: prevención, diagnóstico y tratamiento de la enfermedad periodontal

    1) Entregar recomendaciones para prevenir la aparición de la enfermedad periodontal en adolescentes de 10 a 19 años. 2) Entregar recomendaciones para diagnóstico y tamizaje de la enfermedad periodontal en adolescentes de 10 a 19 años. 3) Entregar recomendaciones para el tratamiento de la enfermedad...

    Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse: community health and social care services

    This guideline covers how to improve services for people aged 14 and above who have been diagnosed as having coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse. The aim is to provide a range of coordinated services that address people’s wider health and social care needs, as well as other issues suc...

    Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management

    This guideline covers assessing and managing low back pain and sciatica in people aged 16 and over. It outlines physical, psychological, pharmacological and surgical treatments to help people manage their low back pain and sciatica in their daily life. The guideline aims to improve people’s quality of ...