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    Resultados: 873

    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...

    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 QuÃ...

    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...

    Spasticity in under 19s: management

    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...

    Recent-onset chest pain of suspected cardiac origin: assessment and diagnosis. Last updated: 2016

    This guideline covers assessing and diagnosing recent chest pain in people aged 18 and over and managing symptoms while a diagnosis is being made. It aims to improve outcomes by providing advice on tests (ECG, high-sensitivity troponin tests, multislice CT angiography, functional testing) that support he...

    Jaundice in newborn babies under 28 days. Last updated: 2016

    This guideline covers diagnosing and treating jaundice, which is caused by increased levels of bilirubin in the blood, in newborn babies (neonates). It aims to help detect or prevent very high levels of bilirubin, which can be harmful if not treated. In October 2016, recommendation 1.4.9 was amended to ...

    Executive Summary: Official American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America Clinical Practice Guidelines: Treatment of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis

    Clin. infect. dis; 63 (7), 2016
    The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Infectious Diseases Society of America jointly sponsored the development of this guideline for the treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis, which is also endorsed by the European Respiratory Society and the US National Tube...

    Chronic diarrhoea: Definition, classification and diagnosis

    Gastroenterol. hepatol; 39 (8), 2016
    Chronic diarrhoea is a common presenting symptom in both primary care medicine and in specialized gastroenterology clinics. It is estimated that >5% of the population has chronic diarrhoea and nearly 40% of these patients are older than 60 years. Clinicians often need to select the best diagnostic approa...