Latest Updates
GGC Paediatric Guidelines
The list below details all additions & changes to guideline content since March 2025
|
Date |
Page added/updated/removed |
| 24/10/2025 | New: Unscheduled Re-attendance to Medical Paediatrics following discharge within previous 72 hours, SOP Updated: Hypertension in children and young people, Renal Unit (498) Updated: Pain management in children, paediatric emergency medicine (335) |
| 16/09/2025 | New: Melatonin (Children), Shared Care Agreement |
| 15/09/2025 | New: Acute Knee Injury SOP Updated: Antidote locations & dosages for RHCG Updated: RHGC Fracture Management Guidance Updated: Hand and finger fractures Updated: Buckle fracture |
| 26/08/2025 | New: Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis, RHC Updated: Eye Care, PICU |
| 01/09/2025 | New: Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis |
| 09/09/2025 | Updated: Guideline for Emergency Departments, Minor Injury Units and Receiving Units where a child or young person presents under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs |
| 07/09/2025 | Updated: Isolates reported as 'I' (susceptible increased exposure) - dosing schedules for neonates and children (944) Updated: Acute Gastroenteritis Management in Paediatric Emergency Medicine (180) Updated: Haemophilia Protocol Royal Hospital for Children, Paediatrics (152) |
| 01/09/2025 | Updated: Pathway for OPAT for children on once daily intravenous antibiotics |
| 26/08/2025 | Updated: Eye Care in PICU |
| 13/08/2025 | Updated: Intentional paracetamol overdose in a single time period (Paracetamol overdose guidance flowcharts) |
| 12/08/2025 | Updated: Tertiary Survey Proforma for trauma – RHCG Updated: Fluid and electrolytes, Haemato-oncology patients (131) Updated: Sickle Cell Protocol, Haematology, Paediatrics (250) Public Protection Policy, NHSGGC |
| 06/08/2025 | Updated: Premedication guideline for paediatric patients prior to general anaesthesia Updated: Community Nursing Teams - Scotland, contact numbers Updated: Managing body temperature: using a forced air warming device – 3M Bair Hugger® Updated: Manual Acute Peritoneal Dialysis in PICU (using the UTAH Medical / Femcare-Nikomed Dialy-Nate® closed peritoneal dialysis set) Updated: General care issues for Paediatric Critical Care: nursing procedure |
| 31/07/2025 | New: Linezolid management in children (1215) |
| 29/07/2025 | New: SOP for Implementation of Neonatal Early Warning Track & Trigger (NEWTT2) in RAH |
| 13/06/2025 | Updated: Developmental care guideline (964) |
| 27/05/2025 | Updated: Confirming the position of a naso-gastric / oro-gastric tube in neonates (696) Updated: Placement of nasogastric or orogastric tubes (neonatal guideline) (697) |
| 09/07/2025 | Updated: Buckle fracture, paediatrics (1122) Updated: Epistaxis management in children, paediatrics (490) Updated: First Afebrile Seizure Management, Emergency Department, Paediatrics (130) New: Pyogenic granulomas in children, management (1221) |
| 02/07/2025 | Updated: Immunisation guideline for neonates (523) |
| 30/06/2025 | New: Unscheduled Acute Referrals to the Neonatal Team in Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) |
| 25/06/2025 | New: PICU Nutrition Resource Book |
| 20/05/2025 | New: Car Seat Challenge: guidance for targeted car seat assessment (1214) Updated: Metabolic Bone Disease of Prematurity (MBDP) guideline for investigation & management (1213) New: Achondroplasia, investigation & management with neonates with suspected achondroplasia (1212) Updated: Less Invasive Surfactant Administration (LISA), neonatal guideline (965) |
| 11/06/2025 | New: Haematology Investigations in Suspected Physical Abuse in Children (1222) |
| 26/03/2025 | Removed: ED Laboratory Chain of Evidence form |
| 17/03/2025 | Updated: Malaria treatment, Paediatrics [minor updates] |
| 05/03/2025 | New: Management of possible rabies exposure in children & young people Removed: Rabies risk assessment and treatment following bat exposure |
| 03/03/2025 | Updated: Varicella zoster infection (chickenpox), management in children [minor updates] |