Guidelines

Guidelines

The NSW Intensive Care Coordination and Monitoring Unit (ICCMU) considers promotion and dissemination of evidence-based practice as core business and seeks to achieve this through clinical networking and a collaborative framework.

You can also use the Search facility to find guidelines.

Introduction

• The central purpose of these pages is to share clinical practice guidelines, facilitating a collaborative network across the Intensive Care units of NSW.
• You will find a wide range of clinical practice guidelines stored here. This includes policies, protoccols, procedures and guidelines from ICUs across NSW.

Statewide Guidelines - Intensive Care Collaborative Project (free access)

• At this time these pages describe the progress of the Intensive Care Collaborative project. This project will be completed by November 2007.

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Guidelines by Type (password access)

• In this section the clinical guidelines from NSW intensive care units have been organised according to eight different types of guidelines.
• A username and password can be obtained from the clinical project officer or ICCMU.

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Guidelines Index (password access)

• In this section the clinical guidelines from NSW intensive care units have been organised alphabetically.
• As username and password can be obtained from the clinical project officer or ICCMU.

Which intensive care units have made guidelines available?

• All intensive care units have agreed in principle to share their guidelines. At this time there are guidelines from seven units and two area health services. See the table below.
• Access to the guidelines has been granted under the following conditions:
  • Individual units accept no responsibility for how its guideline might apply to a third party unit;
  • Individuals who use these policies to develop site specific guidelines must reference the source (eg Name of guideline, Name of hospital, Accessed from ICCMU website on XXX date).
  • Please refer to the full Disclaimer

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Guidelines available on the Web (free access)

• This section includes links to guidelines which are freely available on the Web.
• These links are provided as a resource NOT a recommendation.
• Prior to inclusion on this page each guideline is checked for:
  • Reputable source
  • Evidence of Systematic Review including bibliographic details, levels of evidence and process used
  • Guideline development team representative of user group.
  • Sufficient informaton (or access to it) for an individual user to make an informed decision.

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Who is responsible for these pages?

• The content and development of this page is coordinated by the Clinical Information Group.

Practice Guidelines from other Australian Sources

• Nursing Guidelines for use of Xigris (drotrecogin alfa [activated] rhu) with permission of copyright owners and Eli Lilly
• NSW Severe Burn Injury Service - Model of Care