Clinical Guidelines Library

Bladder Outlet Obstruction: APSA Prenatal Counseling Series

Bladder Outlet Obstruction (from the Prenatal Counseling Series) from the Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Committee of the American Pediatric...

Seizure Prophylaxis After Head Injury

1.0 SCOPE 1.1. Care of the Trauma Services Patient at CCHMC.  2.0 DEFINITIONS2.1. Post-Contact Seizure: Seizure that occurs less than one (1) hour...

Age criteria for post-anesthesia observation for apnea in infants

C-spine Clearance in an Unreliable Patient (Cincinnati Children’s)

2.0 DEFINITIONS 2.1. Unreliable Exam: A patient who meets any of the following criteria cannot undergo clinical clearance of thecervical...

Intussusception Management

Dr. Meera Kotagal joins us again to discuss evaluation and management of patients with suspected intussusception, involving use of air enema,...

Fasting, NPO, guidelines before surgery

Preoperative Fasting, feeding, NPO guidelines for surgery

DVT Prophylaxis for Trauma Patients

DEFINITIONS -Altered mobility: A permanent or temporary state in which the child has a limitation in independent, purposefulphysical movement of...

C-spine Clearance in Reliable Patient Guideline for Trauma (Cincinnati Children's)

1.0 SCOPE 1.1. Care of the Trauma Services Patient at CCHMC. 2.0 DEFINITIONS 2.1. Reliable exam: Evaluation of the cervical spine should assure...

Blunt Abdominal Trauma Guideline (Cincinnati Children's)

Background   Computed tomography is commonly used to rule out intra-abdominal injury (IAI) in children, despite associated cost and radiation...

Preoperative Management of Pyloric Stenosis

References: Dalton BGA, et al. Optimizing fluid resuscitation in hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. J Pediatr Surg 2016;51(8):1279-1282

Minor Head Injury

1.0 SCOPE Care of the Trauma Services patient at CCHMC. 2.0 DEFINITIONS Minor head injury: Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) 13 - 15 3.0 GUIDELINE Complete...

Blunt Abdominal Trauma Evaluation

1.0 SCOPE Care of the Trauma Services Patient at CCHMC.This guideline provides the minimum standard of care for any patient with a suspected blunt...

Solid Organ Injury: ATOMAC Guidelines

BACKGROUND: Nonoperative management of liver and spleen injury should be achievable for more than 95% of children. Large national studies continue...

Pediatric Head CT Rule < 2 years old

Pediatric Head CT Rule > 2 years old

Pectus Carinatum Guidelines