Emergency department factsheets provide condition specific health and medical information for people attending the emergency department.
They are designed to assist communication between emergency department clinicians and patients and/or carers.
How to use these factsheets
- Clinicians are encouraged to use emergency department factsheets as a communication tool in their conversation with the patient and/or their carers.
- A clinician should give the factsheet to the patient when they are discharged from the emergency department.
- Some factsheets can be given to patients when they arrive in the emergency department. Notes can be made on the factsheets by the clinician, patient and/or carer, to personalise the information.
- Adult Fact Sheets
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- Abdominal Pain
- Ankle sprain
- Arthritis & Gout
- Asthma
- Back pain (external link – Chartered Society of Physiotherapy)
- Burns
- Cellulitis
- Chest Infection
- Chest Pain
- Colds and Flu
- Concussion
- Concussion - returning to work and sport
- Constipation
- Depression
- Eye Injury - flash burn
- Eye Injury - foreign body
- Fracture
- Gastroenteritis
- Hives
- Kidney Stones
- Migraine Headache
- Minor Head Injury
- Miscarriage
- Otitis Externa
- Overdose
- Seizures
- Tension Headache
- Tonsilitis
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Vertigo
- Wound Care
- Wound glue
- Children Fact Sheets
- Social Support Fact Sheets
