Sepsis clinical guidelines and tools
Children’s Health Queensland, in partnership with the Clinical Excellence Queensland Paediatric Sepsis Program, has developed Paediatric Sepsis Pathways for the early recognition and management of sepsis in children.
The Paediatric Sepsis Pathways, available below, include a sepsis recognition and screening tool, treatment bundle, and antibiotic prescribing and administration guidelines to assist clinicians in screening and recognising sepsis earlier and initiating treatment in line with international best practice guidelines.
The Pathways have been co-designed by a multidisciplinary team of experts and consumers whose families had been personally impacted by sepsis and have been contextualised for Queensland emergency departments, including rural and remote hospitals. The pathways can be ordered at WINC using the following codes.
- 1NY37615 – paediatric sepsis pathway for tertiary and secondary facilities.
- 1NY37617 – paediatric sepsis pathway for rural and remote facilities.
If your organisation does not have a WINC account you will need to create an account to be able to place an order.
A paediatric sepsis care pathway is currently under development for the ieMR and it is anticipated for release by October 2021. A paediatric inpatient sepsis pathway is currently in trial.
| Paediatric sepsis clinical guidelines and tools |
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| Emergency Department Paediatric Sepsis Pathway for tertiary and secondary facilities View pathway |
| Emergency Department Paediatric Sepsis Pathway for rural and remote facilities View pathway |
| Emergency Department Paediatric Sepsis Clinical Pathway – Factsheet View factsheet |
| Emergency Department Paediatric Sepsis Clinical Pathway – Frequently Asked Questions View FAQs |
| Management of Suspected Neutropenic Sepsis Pathway (QH staff only) View pathway |
| Queensland Paediatric Emergency Guidelines View guidelines |
| Sepsis – Recognition and emergency management in children View guideline |
| Medication guides for use in Queensland View guides |
| Children’s Resuscitation Emergency Drug Dosage (CREDD) View guidelines |
| CHQ Sepsis Factsheet View factsheet |
| Antimicrobial Stewardship Sepsis Guidelines View guidelines |
| Emergency Febrile illness guidelines View guidelines |
| Emergency management of children with sepsis flowchart View flowchart |
