This guideline covers assessment and early management of head injury in babies, children, young people and adults. It aims to ensure that people have the right care for the severity of their head injury, including direct referral to specialist care if needed....
This guideline covers organising and delivering emergency and acute medical care for people aged over 16 in the community and in hospital. It aims to reduce the need for hospital admissions by giving advanced training to paramedics and providing community alternatives to hospital care. It also promotes g...
This guideline covers assessing and managing pelvic fractures, open fractures and severe ankle fractures (known as pilon fractures and intra-articular distal tibia fractures) in pre-hospital settings (including ambulance services), emergency departments and major trauma centres. It aims to reduce deaths ...
Bressler, B;
Marshall, J. K;
Bernstein, C. N;
Bitton, A;
Jones, J;
Leontiadis, G. I;
Panaccione, R;
Steinhart, A. H;
Tse, F;
Feagan, B.
BACKGROUND & AIMS:: The medical management of ulcerative colitis (UC) has improved through the development of new therapies and novel approaches that optimize existing drugs. Previous Canadian consensus guidelines addressed the management of severe UC in the hospitalized patient. We now present consensu...
The purpose of this guidance document is to inform physicians and
other health care practitioners of an increased risk of influenza
outbreaks in long-term care facilities (LTCF) during the 2014-2015
influenza season in Canada, and to provide recommendations for
adjustment to LTCF outbreak control measure...
Al-Hameed, F. M;
Al-Dorzi, H. M;
Al-Momen, A. M;
Algahtani, F. H;
Al-Zahrani, H. A;
Al-Saleh, K. A;
Al-Sheef, M. A;
Owaidah, T. M;
Alhazzani, W;
Neumann, I;
Wiercioch, W;
Brozek, J;
Schunemann, H;
Akl, E. A.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) is commonly encountered in daily clinical practice. After diagnosis, its management frequently carries significant challenges to the clinical practitioner. Treatment of VTE with the inappropriate modality and/or...
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing acute heart failure or possible acute heart failure in people aged 18 and over. It aims to improve the immediate care of someone who is acutely unwell as a result of heart failure....
Bates, S. M;
Jaeschke, R;
Stevens, S. M;
Goodacre, Wells;
Stevenson, M. D;
Kearon, C;
Schunemann, H. J;
Crowther, M;
Pauker, S. G;
Makdissi, R;
Guyatt, G. H.
Chest; 141 (2,supl), 2012
BACKGROUND: Objective testing for DVT is crucial because clinical assessment alone is unreliable and the consequences of misdiagnosis are serious. This guideline focuses on the identification of optimal strategies for the diagnosis of DVT in ambulatory adults. METHODS: The methods of this guideline follo...
Community-acquired pneumonia is diagnosed by clinical features (e.g., cough, fever, pleuritic chest pain) and by lung
imaging, usually an infiltrate seen on chest radiography. Initial evaluation should determine the need for hospitalization versus outpatient management using validated mortality or severi...
Neumonía/diagnóstico por imagen,
Neumonía/terapia,
Enfermedades Respiratorias/diagnóstico,
Atención Ambulatoria/organización & administración,
Cultivo de Sangre/instrumentación,
Macrólidos/uso terapéutico,
Doxiciclina/uso terapéutico,
Antibacterianos/uso terapéutico,
Fluoroquinolonas/uso terapéutico,
Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos,
Neumonía Asociada a la Atención Médica/prevención & control