Ambulance services

Course

Paediatric Infection (Online)

17 April 2023
This short course synthesises core scientific knowledge with practical clinical scenarios to encourage a deeper understanding of infectious diseases in neonates and children, and to help you to develop your own framework to address any clinical infection problem.
Area of medicine
Drugs and medicines
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Infectious diseases
Intensive care medicine
Tropical medicine
Care setting
Ambulance services
Emergency Department
Community services
Primary care
Secondary care
Social care
Tertiary care
Document

Administration of rectal diazepam to neonates and infants to treat seizures prior to hospital admission - position statement

This guidance is for ambulance services which need to administer diazepam, a medicine for treating seizures, to neonates and infants. It explains how to accurately administer a 1.25mg or 2.5mg dose directly from a 5mg rectal tube. Buccal midazolam is usually preferred to rectal diazepam in the ho...
Drugs and medicines
Emergency medicine
Neurology
Ambulance services
Epilepsy
Resource

Facing the Future - standards for children and young people in emergency care settings

These standards aim to ensure that urgent and emergency care is fully integrated to ensure children are seen by the right people, at the right place and in the right setting. Emergency departments that see children submitted data to our national audit, and results show how well standards are bein...
Emergency medicine
Ambulance services
Primary care
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Service design
Facing the Future - emergency care
Integrated care
Models of care
Workforce
Committee

Paediatric Emergency Medicine Intercollegiate SAC

The College Specialty Advisory Committees (CSACs) supervise the development and delivery of subspecialty training and the assessment standards. CSACs are sub-committees of our Education and Training Quality Committee, which helps the College set these standards within a training programme that is re...