From Tuesday 1st December 2015 all patients seen in the main department should have a drug and alcohol screening form (see below). You can find these forms on the resus coordinator and assessment coordinator desks, as well as in Obs…
Here is Carolyn Groves very helpful talk on the management of patients taking NOAC’s. Please note that the more recent Australian Guidelines: New oral anticoagulants: a practical guide on prescription, laboratory testing and peri-procedural/bleeding management, published in 2014, do slightly differ…
Here is Vera’s talk the ECG manifestations of drug overdose. Resources: ECG in Toxicology from LITFL ECG changes in TCA Overdose from LITFL Cardiotoxic Drugs from WikiTox QT Interval Nomogram:
Here is the link to the Western Australian Therapeutic Advisory Group (WATAG) New Oral Anticoagulant (NOAC) Guidelines, first published in November 2013 And here is the Living with a NOAC (patient pamphlet) Prescribing a NOAC: Managing bleeding on a NOAC:
As per the DOH WA (full memorandum here): The Paediatric Pharmacopeia 13th Edition published by RCH Melbourne in 2002, was previously regarded as the standard reference for paediatric dosing. However, there has been minimal updates to the hard copy version…
