ED Orientation

Education Programs

• Here you will find links to the various intradepartmental education programs that include the relevant times, venues, description and timetables

A Day at SCGH ED

• Currently a work in progress…. Here you will eventually find information to help guide you through what is expected of you day to day while working at Charlie’s ED. Including information on:
  • Handover times and expectations
  • Presentation of patients to senior doctors
  • Drug prescribing guidelines (via SCGH Pharmacy Dept intranet only)
  • Calling in sick
  • On-call commitments for RMO’s and Registrars
  • Ordering of investigations
  • Performing procedures / procedural sedation in the ED
  • Attending education programs
  • Dealing with aggressive patients / relatives / ?staff
  • Mentorship in the ED…..

SCGH ED Guidebook

• A repository of all the useful information necessary for working in the SCGH Emergency Department

SCGH ED Clinical Guidelines

• Currently in development…. A page containing SCGH specific guidelines that are relevant to the Emergency Department, listed by Specialty and Topic.

Airway Orientation Resources

• This link contains some SCGH ED specific, and some nonspecific, airway resources in the form of videos and forms

Ultrasound – Where do I start?

• The important things you need to know if you want to wield a probe at SCGH ED

Obstetrics Orientation Resources

• SCGH ED specific obstetrics resources in the form of short videos to help you prepare for the occasional emergent ED delivery and neonatal resuscitation

SCGH ED Chest Pain Pathways

• Includes:
  • SCGH Code STEMI Protocol
  • SCGH Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Assessment and Treatment Algorithm (with explanatory video by Assoc Prof James Rippey)
  • SCGH ED Chest Pain Discharge Advice Sheet (for the low risk ACS group)