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 ...
This guideline covers managing spasticity and co-existing motor disorders and their early musculoskeletal complications in children and young people (from birth up to their 19th birthday) with non-progressive brain disorders. It aims to reduce variation in practice and help healthcare professionals to se...
This guideline covers safe and effective prescribing of strong opioids for pain relief in adults with advanced and progressive disease. It aims to clarify the clinical pathway for prescribing and help to improve pain management and patient safety. Care during the last 2 to 3 days of life is covered by ca...
This guideline covers the assessment and early management of spinal column and spinal cord injury in pre-hospital settings (including ambulance services), emergency departments and major trauma centres. It covers traumatic injuries to the spine but does not cover spinal injury caused by a disease. It aim...
This guideline covers the rapid identification and early management of major trauma in pre‑hospital and hospital settings, including ambulance services, emergency departments, major trauma centres and trauma units. It aims to reduce deaths and disabilities in people with serious injuries by improving t...
This guideline covers assessing and managing non-complex fractures that can be treated in the emergency department or orthopaedic clinic. It aims to improve practice so that people with fractures receive the care that they need without unnecessary tests and treatments.
The guideline should be read along...
OBJECTIVES: When conservative therapies such as pain medication or exercise therapy fail, invasive treatment may be indicated for patients with lumbosacral spinal pain. The Dutch Society of Anesthesiologists, in collaboration with the Dutch Orthopedic Association and the Dutch Neurosurgical Society, has ...
Proponer recomendaciones basadas en la evidencia para la atención depacientes en cuidados paliativos....
Esta guía se centra en la atención de personas afectadas por espondiloartritis axial (EspAax) o
por artritis psoriásica (APs). Se incluyen solamente pacientes adultos y el área clínica abordada
es la del tratamiento de la enfermedad....
Barr, J;
Fraser, G. L;
Puntillo, K;
Ely, E. W;
Gélinas, C;
Dasta, J. F;
Davidson, J. E;
Devlin, J. W;
Kress, J. P;
Joffe, A. M;
Coursin, D. B;
Herr, D. L;
Tung, A;
Robinson, B, R;
Fontaine, D. K;
Ramsay, M. A;
Riker, R. R;
Sessler, C. N;
Pun, B;
Skrobik, Y;
Jaeschke, R.
OBJECTIVE: To revise the "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Sustained Use of Sedatives and Analgesics in the Critically Ill Adult" published in Critical Care Medicine in 2002. METHODS: The American College of Critical Care Medicine assembled a 20-person, multidisciplinary, multi-institutional task for...