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Virtual Fracture Clinic – Parent information leaflet
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Parent information leaflet to be provided if referring to Virtual Fracture Clinic for follow up.
Editorial Information
Last reviewed: 18 May 2023
Next review: 31 October 2025
Author(s): Miss Alexandra Smith (Consultant in Paediatric Orthopaedics, RHCG)
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- Acute Asthma Management, Children Under 2 years, Emergency Department
- Acute otitis externa in children, Emergency Department
- Acute pain relief services protocol (APRS)
- Acute replacement of gastrostomy tubes (Emergency Department SOP)
- Acute Sore Throat
- Acute wheeze in children 2 years and older: assessment and management
- Acute wheeze: escalation to intravenous therapy for Acute Wheeze Integrated Care Pathway (ICP) for patients over 2 years old
- Adrenal insufficiency in children, emergency management protocol
- Adrenal suppression secondary to exogenous glucocorticoid - guidance for children on long term steroid therapy
- Adrenaline auto injector prescription guideline
- 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
- Antibiotic prophylaxis for paediatric surgery
- Aspiration of a foreign body
- Atraumatic painful limb
- Bell's Palsy
- Bomb blast injuries in children: antibiotic management
- Brief Resolved Unexplained Event or BRUE (ALTE guideline update)
- Bronchiolitis parent information leaflet
- Buckle fracture
- Burn, looking after your child's (ED parent advice sheet)
- Burns – admission & follow up guidance
- Burns, airway and smoke inhalation in children
- Child protection bundle: Emergency Department & Minor Injury Unit (adult & children)
- Child Protection pathways where concern for neglect or abuse - RHC ED
- Child Protection Policies & Procedures [Staffnet]
- Child sexual exploitation, recognition and response: guidance for health staff
- Clinical operation policy for ALL CT imaging requests from the Emergency Department Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow
- Community Nursing Teams - Scotland, contact numbers
- Conjunctivitis: management in children
- Constipation in children
- Croup
- Decreased consciousness level in children: management of
- Diabetes mellitus, management during surgery
- Diabetes, new presentations and suspected diagnoses
- Diabetic ketoacidosis including fluid calculation sheet
- Digital camera policy: ED & SSW
- Discarded needles, managing injuries from needles discarded in the community
- Domestic abuse, identifying and responding to within NHSGGC Children's Services
- Emergency contraception
- Empirical antibiotic therapy in children
- Epistaxis management in children
- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) guidance
- Escalation policy to maintain safety - RHC Standard Operating Procedure
- Febrile convulsion parent information leaflet
- Febrile neutropenia, out of hours pathway for RHC
- Feverish Illness in Children (< 5 years) Paediatric Emergency Department, RHC
- First afebrile seizure, management
- Gastroenteritis in children
- Guidance for patients with suspected plague (Yersinia pestis infection): RHC ED
- Guideline for contacting the ED consultant on call between Midnight and 9am
- Haematuria, management and investigation in Paediatrics
- Hand and finger fractures
- Head injury / concussion advice leaflet for parents/guardians
- Head injury guideline (Emergency Department)
- Headaches in children
- Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP) – ‘New’ patient follow-up SOP
- How to complete a notification of concern form (ED SOP)
- Hypercyanotic episodes in tetralogy of fallot
- Hypoglycaemia management, Paediatric Emergency Department
- Incidental murmur
- Ingested foreign bodies, Emergency Department
- Management of inter-hospital transfers by RHC Emergency Department
- Intoxicated child/adolescent flow chart
- Intravenous fluid guidance for previously well children aged >7 days to 16 years
- Jehovah's Witness management, paediatric patients
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), management in children
- Laboratory Chain of Evidence form & notes for use in the ED
- Initial diagnosis of Macrophage Activation Syndrome
- Major haemorrhage protocol
- Malaria treatment guidelines, paediatrics
- Maltreatment in children under the age of 1 year, recognition and management
- Maltreatment in children under the age of 1: injury proforma [Staffnet]
- Acutely disturbed or challenging behaviour in children with learning disabilities & / or ASD (aged 5-18 years)
- Medical Acute Receiving Unit Guide for Hi-Flo (AIRVO) Use in Bronchiolitis
- MERS - Middle East Respiratory Syndrome - RHC ED patient pathway guidance
- Moving and handling the child with suspected/diagnosed spinal injury: application of Miami-Jr and Miami J collar, Standard Operating Procedure
- Moving and handling the child with suspected/diagnosed spinal injury: log rolling, Standard Operating Procedure
- Nasal injuries
- Nasal injury advice sheet (parent information)
- Needlestick injuries and exposure to blood and high risk body fluids: initial action plan
- New psychoactive substances (NPS): Emergency Department guidance
- Next Day Surgical Procedures (fasting guidance) – parent information leaflet
- Management of the Child with a Non-Blanching Rash (NBR): (i.e. Petechiae, Purpura & Ecchymoses)
- Notification of diseases to Public Health
- Orbital cellulitis protocol, ENT department
- Paediatric neck lumps (diagnosis and management)
- Pain in children, management in the ED
- Pneumonia, community acquired: guideline in children
- Pregnancy testing guidelines for girls aged 12 yrs & over (RHC)
- Procedure for notification of child deaths [Staffnet]
- Pulled elbow
- Rabies risk assessment and treatment following bat exposure
- Radiological imaging transfer / viewing guidance
- Rapid access (unscheduled) outpatient clinic: guidelines for referral
- Rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia for intubation: checklist
- Rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia for intubation: intubation drugs
- Referral Criteria for Paediatric Continence Service
- Referral Pathway for Paediatric Continence Service
- RHC ED debriefing proforma
- Glasgow Emergency Paediatric ECG Guideline (GEPEG)
- Managing sexual activity in young people: recognition and criteria for referral
- Surgical and Urological Advice for RHCG ED
- Tetanus vaccination in children
- Tissue adhesives (management of accidental injury)
- Torticollis (congenital and acquired) in children
- Tranexamic acid in paediatric surgery and trauma
- Trauma team roles and responsibilities
- Unplanned return patient checklist, ED RHC
- Upper limb injuries: assessment of neurological status
- Urticaria not associated with anaphylaxis: management in children
- Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (VHF) patient pathway 2021 (Paediatric ED)
- Rapid tranquilisation of young people aged 12-17 years, algorithm
- Management of acutely disturbed or challenging behaviour in children aged 5-12 years
- Antidote locations for RHCG
- RHCG Fracture Management Guidance
- RHC Fracture Clinic Pathway & how to arrange follow up (Ortho & Physiotherapy)
- Virtual Fracture Clinic – Parent information leaflet
- Cardiac transplant patient - paediatric acute care management pathway
- Emergency paediatric tracheostomy management
- Diagnosis, treatment and management of UTI in children RHC Glasgow
- Sudden unexpected death in infancy and childhood: Multi-agency guidelines for care and investigation
- Paediatric Transfer Traffic Light : risk assessment
- Acute neonatal referral pathways
- RHCG Major Trauma Team Emergency Department Activation and Response - Standard Operating Procedure
- Fever in the returning paediatric traveller
- Paediatric Transfer Documentation – GG&C
- Proteinuria on urinalysis in the Emergency Department
- Major Incident Plan, RHC
- Paediatric General Surgery - Processes in ED
- Referral Pathways for Head Injury Patients from Emergency Departments to RHC
- Referral to Paediatric Major Trauma Centres in Scotland
- Major Trauma Single Point of Contact (SPOC) SOP – RHCG
- Paediatric Procedural Sedation with IV Ketamine SOP – RHCG ED
- Ketamine sedation: information leaflet for parents and caregivers
- IV Ketamine Paediatric Sedation Proforma
- Call out of cardiac theatre and perfusion team for advanced trauma call
- Tertiary Survey Proforma for trauma – RHCG
- Suspected vascular injury clinical care pathway
- Critical Care Adolescent Patient Pathway
- RHC ED, CDU & Outpatient pathway for Infants with suspected Non IgE Cows milk protein allergy (CMPA)
- Fracture manipulation management for RHC ED
- Status Epilepticus Management
- Major Paediatric Trauma - Imaging Flowchart
- Unscheduled CAMHS referral flowchart
- Varicella zoster infection (chickenpox): management in children
- MRI Imaging Out of Hours: Acute Spinal Trauma, RHCG
- Management of atopic eczema in children
- Antibiotic management of suspected or confirmed invasive Group A Streptococcus (iGAS) infection in children
- RHCG Paracetamol overdose guidance - 12-hr shortened N-acetylcysteine dosing schedule (SNAP protocol)
- Electrical injuries guideline RHCG
- Refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people: guidelines for use in the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow
- How to add a patient to the ED expects list - RHC ED
- Haemophilia protocol
- Child Death Review procedures, RHC
- Managing SAS pre-alert for newborns delivered in the community - RHC ED
- Incidental hyperglycaemia / glycosuria
- Intermittent / borderline hyperglycaemia
- RHC Measles guidance
- RHC ED Front-door greeter SOP
- RHC ED 'Who Takes What?' referrals - Orthopaedics/Plastics/Neurosurgery
- Acute Medical Receiving - streaming from ED direct to CDU
- Roles and responsibilities of ED-based junior paediatric staff
- Management of mpox - RHC Glasgow
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