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PAEDIATRIC ALTERED
CONSCIOUS LEVEL GUIDELINE |
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SCOPE
The scope
of a guideline defines the impact the guideline should have on the health of
its target population (please review AIMS), which patients should be
included and which patients should be excluded from using the guideline (i.e.
the target population), and at which point the guideline starts and at which
point it stops.
This
guideline will be a problem-based guideline dealing with the presenting problem
of altered conscious level in children, as opposed to a diagnosis-based
guideline (which would have a start-point of a specific diagnosis - in the case
of altered consciousness a diagnosis may take several steps to reach).
Guideline modules
The
guideline will be developed in two parts or “modules”. The first module of the
guideline will be limited to the management in the first hour or so after
presenting to acute hospital services. The second module will start after the
initial first line investigation results have been reviewed.