In this section, you will find clinical information (guidelines, protocols and toolkits) relevant to Paediatric care.
The information is in alphabetical order, in two sections covering Clinical and Nursing.
If you have any suggestions for further documents to be added, please email: Sheena.Vernon@uhbristol.nhs.uk
Clinical
Flu vaccine guidance 2018 (External Link)
Hypercyanotic Spell Emergency Management ('Spelling') (Updated 2018)
Influenza guidance 2019-20 (from Bristol Royal Hospital for Children Lead Pharmacist for Cardiology)
Physical Activity: A Guide for Young People with a Congenital Heart Condition and their Families
Time Critical Transfers - Wales & West Acute Transport for Children (WATCh) (External Link)
Warfarin Management for Paediatric Cardiac Patients
Nursing
Cove Point Foundation John Hopkins University - Congenital Heart Disease
High Dependency Care for Children - Time to Move on
High Dependency Care for Children - Time to Move On (Appendices)
RCN Competencies - Children and Young People's Cardiac Nursing
Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health. Situation Awareness for Everyone. S.A.F.E.
Paediatric Intensive Care Society
Level 1, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, protocols (required for peer review)
Elective referral and consent pathway for paediatric cardiac surgery
Pathway for interventional paediatric cardiac catheterisation
Pathway for paediatric electrophysiology procedures
PDA guidance for ferral for cardiological assessment and possible ligation for preterm infants
Assessment of patients with CHD requiring anaesthesia
Management of patients who self refer out of hours
Access to second opinion and referals to other centres/services
Collaborative arrangements to facilitate joint operating, and mentorship in operating on children
Referral to advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant services
Referral to national pulmonary hypertension service
Clinician's guide to image sharing
Transfer of echocardiography data to other hospitals
Fetal cardiology service - arrangements for the early (pre natal) diagnosis of CHD
Bristol congenital heart centre transition process