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How the recommendations might affect practice According to the Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme (PQIP) 2017/2018 annual...
Intravenous fluid therapy in children and young people in hospital (NG29)
This guideline covers general principles for managing intravenous (IV) fluids for children and young people under 16 years, including assessing fluid and electrolyte status and prescribing IV fluid therapy. It applies to a range of conditions and different settings. It does not include recommendations relating to specific conditions. This guideline represents a major opportunity to improve patient safety for children and young people having IV fluid therapy in hospital.
Urinary tract infection (catheter-associated): antimicrobial prescribing (NG113)
This guideline sets out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for catheter-associated urinary tract infection in children, young people and adults. It aims to optimise antibiotic use and reduce antibiotic resistance.
Evidence-based recommendations on thoracoscopically assisted mitral valve surgery. This involves repairing a defective valve through one or more small incisions between the ribs rather than one large incision through the breastbone (sternum).
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Acute kidney injury: prevention, detection and management (NG148)
This guideline covers preventing, detecting and managing acute kidney injury in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve assessment and detection by non-specialists, and specifies when people should be referred to specialist services. This will improve early recognition and treatment, and reduce the risk of complications in people with acute kidney injury.
Summary of the evidence on desflurane for maintenance of anaesthesia
benefit from postoperative care in a specialist recovery area (a high-dependency unit, a post-anaesthesia care unit or an...
cost-effective strategy, as identified by a consensus survey, for the perioperative management of anticoagulation treatment in people...
current practice was unclear because of subsequent improvements in perioperative care such as better preoperative risk assessment and...
Sonata system for diagnostic imaging and treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids (MIB255)
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on the Sonata system for diagnostic imaging and treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids .
HemaClear for bloodless surgical field during limb surgery (MIB187)
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on HemaClear for bloodless surgical field during limb surgery .
This guideline covers the general principles for managing intravenous (IV) fluid therapy in hospital inpatients aged 16 and over with a range of conditions. It aims to help prescribers understand the optimal amount and composition of IV fluids to be administered and the best rate at which to give them, to improve fluid prescribing and outcomes among people in hospital. It does not cover pregnant women, and those with severe liver or renal disease, diabetes or burns.
Evidence-based recommendations on liposuction for chronic lymphoedema in adults. This involves using suction to remove fluid and fat through punctures in the skin.
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What is the clinical and cost effectiveness of preoperative optimisation clinics for older people?
physiological resilience, which is associated with increased complications and perioperative mortality. Because of this, they agreed...
physiological resilience, which is associated with increased complications and perioperative mortality. Because of this, they agreed...