Children in the Emergency Department (ED) deteriorate unexpectedly. Paediatric sentinel events and coroners’ cases have recurring themes related to parent/carers' inability to effectively escalate their concerns about their child's deterioration whilst in the ED.
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Ensuring early intervention and preventative care programs focus on improving outcomes for priority maternal and child populations is a key recommendation in the latest maternity and childhood data report.
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- Maternity and newborn
- Paediatric
With the support of Adult Retrieval Victoria, Ambulance Victoria, the Paediatric Clinical Network, Safer Care Victoria is introducing the Paediatric Critical Health Resource Information System (Paediatric CHRIS) on 16 March 2022 across Victoria.
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Greater insights into the longer-term impact of COVID-19 in the Victorian community as well as the effect of vaccination on health outco
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New clinical pathways that have proven to reduce harm from sepsis are now available for Victorian clinicians.
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New resources will help guide parents through difficult decisions if their baby is born extremely premature at 22 to 24 weeks.
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- Paediatric
- Emergency care
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common childhood surgeries and is usually performed to treat snoring, obstructive sleep apnoea or frequent tonsillitis.
New resources are now available to help families decide whether their child needs surgery to remove their tonsils.
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Our Infection Clinical Network is looking for a general practitioner to join its INSIGHT (Infection Clinical Network Information Sharing In Generating Health ouTcomes) subcommittee.
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More babies are getting a better start to life, according to the latest data from Safer Care Victoria (SCV).
The annual Perinatal services performance indicators report compares outcomes for women and newborns at Victorian hospitals.
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- Paediatric