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Clinical Excellence Showcase 2023 project

Category 2 walk-in chest pain patients are at the highest risk in the Emergency Department (ED) waiting room because of an inability to access electrocardiogram (ECG) within recommended timeframes...

Central Venous Catheter - six Cs for safety poster

Staff at the Ipswich Hospital Emergency Department (ED) realised there was an opportunity to standardise processes and streamline interdepartmental transfers, particularly for patients transferred...

Townsville University Hospital Emergency Department

The physician assistants at Townsville University Hospitals' (TUH) Emergency Department (ED) help support doctors and facilitate a smooth patient experience. They are particularly helpful for...

Scribes in emergency department

Medical students have been trialled as scribes at the Emergency Department (ED) of Redland Hospital  (Metro North Hospital and Health Service) to support Emergency Physicians (EP) in Acute, Fast...

Reducing ED pressures

The Rapid Access Clinic (RAC) program enables specialist clinical units to maintain ongoing care, responsibility, and oversight for the non-elective care of their patients when they experience an...

Clinical Excellence Showcase 2022

Speeding up documentation allows clinicians to discharge Emergency Department (ED) patients more quickly. This may only be by five to 10 minutes (often more) but applied to more than 100 patients...

GuideWIRE Education

WIREd aims to upskill emergency clinicians to perform Guidewire Catheter Insertion utilising the Seldinger Technique for appropriate management of patients with acute urinary retention. ...

Start with Topical Anaesthesia, Replacing Procedural Sedation

This PROV-ED initiative promotes a specific technique to optimise the use of topical anaesthetic gel for effective pain relief of certain skin lacerations, aiming to reduce the need for procedural...

Streamlined Paediatric Cannulation in Emergency

SPaCE is a resource pack to help standardise and streamline paediatric cannulation processes, particularly in mixed emergency departments (EDs) with varying levels of staff experience. 
It...

RESUSMENU

RESUSMENU is a paper resource for medical staff to indicate and prioritise Rapid Sequence Induction (RSI) and/or cardiac arrest drugs to be prepared in advance of a patient requiring...

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Category 2 walk-in chest pain patients are at the highest risk in the Emergency Department (ED) waiting room because of an inability to access electrocardiogram (ECG) within...

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  • develop a model of care to support best practice care for Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) with kidney disease living in Metro North Hospital and...

10000LivesCQ uses a Senior Project Officer to promote available support services, including Quitline, to increase smoking cessation in Central Queensland Hospital and Health...