COVID-19 Guidelines & Resources
Triage Guidelines – not in current use
- SCGH ED COVID-19 Triage Guidelines – not in current use
Mx COVID +ve Patients at SCGH ED
Which COVID +ve do I admit / discharge – not in current use
COVID +ve Admissions
- General Mx:
- Special Interventions:
- Pharmacological Treatments:
- Specific Drugs:
- Budesonide
- Dexamethasone
- Sotrovimab
- Remdesivir
- Baricitinib (PO) or Tocilizumab (IV)
COVID +ve Discharges
- Special Interventions:
- Pharmacological Treatments for Discharges:
- Specific Drugs:
- Budesonide
- unrestricted access
- how the patient gets it? – currently via a script faxed to their pharmacy and they will deliver
- Sotrovimab
- Access Criteria for Sotrovimab – if eligible, then contact ID COVID consultant – they will arrange OP Clinic (currently weekdays 8am-5pm, at this stage) appt for patient (if within <5 day onset of sx’s timeframe), or advise for infusion in the ED
- REDCap – WA Emergency COVID-19 Treatment Approval: Sotrovimab
- Sotrovimab – Patient Information
- WA Patient Consent Form – Use of Sotrovimab in patients with COVID-19
- Nirmatrelvir + Ritonavir (Paxlovid®)
- Molnupiravir (Lagevrio®)
- Budesonide
- Discharge information for patient
- DOHWA – Quarantine & Isolation Information (WA guidelines)
- There should be printouts of these in the Red/Orange Zone to give patients
- DOHWA – Quarantine & Isolation Information (WA guidelines)
- COVID Care at Home Service
- The Care at Home referral email address: escalations@covidcareathome.com.au
- WA COVID Care at Home – Patient Information
- WA COVID Care at Home – DOHWA webpage
Other COVID Resources
SCGH COVID Guidelines and Resources
Department of Health WA COVID Guidelines and Resources
- Vaccine Induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopaenia (VITT):
- THANZ Advisory Statement for Haematologists: VITT Multidisciplinary Guideline for Doctors
- ACEM – Thrombosis with Thrombocytopaenia Syndrome (TTS) following COVID-19 vaccination: Assessment of patients presenting to the Emergency Department with TTS symptoms
- DOHWA: VITT Clinican Alert (16th of April 2021)
- Where to report adverse events:
Link to old SCGH ED COVID guideline page (last updated 08/2021) is HERE
