This guideline covers identifying people who wish to donate their organs after their death. It offers advice on how to approach families and carers of people who are nearing the end of life and how to seek consent for organ donation. It aims to promote discussion of organ donation as part of end-of-life ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Carson, JL;
Guyatt, G;
Heddle, NM;
Grossman, BJ;
Cohn, CS;
Fung, MK;
Gernsheimer, T;
Holcomb, JB;
Kaplan, LJ;
Katz, LM;
Peterson, N;
Ramsey, G;
Rao, SV;
Roback, JD;
Shander, A;
Tobian, AA.
"IMPORTANCE:
More than 100 million units of blood are collected worldwide each year, yet the indication for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion and the optimal length of RBC storage prior to transfusion are uncertain.
OBJECTIVE:
To provide recommendations for the target hemoglobin level for RBC transfusion...
This guideline covers assessing, diagnosing and managing physical health problems of people in prison. It aims to improve health and wellbeing in the prison population by promoting more coordinated care and more effective approaches to prescribing, dispensing and supervising medicines....
DESCRIPTION: The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations on the management of gout. METHODS: Using the ACP grading system, the committee based these recommendations on a systematic review of randomized, controlled trials; ...
