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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.
This guideline covers identifying and caring for adults who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition in hospital or in their own home or a care home. It offers advice on how oral, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition support should be started, administered and stopped. It aims to support healthcare professionals identify malnourished people and help them to choose the most appropriate form of support.
This guideline covers the routine postnatal care that women and their babies should receive in the first 8 weeks after the birth. It includes the organisation and delivery of postnatal care, identifying and managing common and serious health problems in women and their babies, how to help parents form strong relationships with their babies, and baby feeding. The recommendations on emotional attachment and baby feeding also cover the antenatal period.
Evidence-based recommendations on PeritX for vacuum-assisted drainage of treatment-resistant, recurrent malignant ascites.
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing bronchiolitis in babies and children. It aims to help healthcare professionals diagnose bronchiolitis and identify if babies and children should be cared for at home or in hospital. It describes treatments and interventions that can be used to help with the symptoms of bronchiolitis.
This guideline covers the circumstances for inducing labour, methods of induction, assessment, monitoring, pain relief and managing complications. It aims to improve advice and care for pregnant women who are thinking about or having induction of labour.
Etanercept, infliximab and adalimumab for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis (TA199)
Evidence-based recommendations on etanercept (Enbrel), infliximab (Remicade) and adalimumab (Humira) for treating active and progressive psoriatic arthritis in adults.
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information:- A descriptive study involving patients who have had neutropenic sepsis and their carers should be undertaken to find out...
This guideline covers risk assessment, prevention and treatment in children, young people and adults at risk of, or who have, a pressure ulcer (also known as a bedsore or pressure sore). It aims to reduce the number of pressure ulcers in people admitted to secondary or tertiary care or receiving NHS care in other settings, such as primary and community care and emergency departments.
Utilising the skills of the clinical pharmacist within the MDT for improved medicines optimisation
protocol for intra-abdominal sepsis. Switch from IV to PO. Significant interventions Patient treated for abdominal sepsis...
PEWS (paediatric early warning score), be used to improve the detection of sepsis and facilitate prompt and appropriate clinical...
i STAT CG4+ and CHEM8+ cartridges for point-of-care testing in the emergency department (MIB38)
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on i STAT CG4+ and CHEM8+ cartridges for point-of-care testing in the emergency department
use of antibiotic treatment in people with confirmed or highly suspected sepsis in intensive care units and in people with suspected...
RespiraSense for continuously monitoring respiratory rate (MIB299)
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on RespiraSense for continuously monitoring respiratory rate .
Abortion care. Patient decision aid on choosing between medical or surgical abortion before 14 weeks
These serious complications include severe bleeding, damage to the womb or sepsis (a severe reaction to an infection). The risk of...