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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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ICUs with Guidelines currently at the Website  
  • Gosford
  • Royal North Shore
  • Greater Western AHS
  • Shoalhaven
  • John Hunter
  • St Vincents
  • Nepean
  • Western Sydney (before January 2005)
  • Prince of Wales

 

 

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

 

 

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In collaboration with the Community and ICU Clinicians, the Intensive Care Coordination & Monitoring Unit (ICCMU) and NSWHealth are committed to promoting excellence across Intensive Care services throughout the State. © ICCMU, NSWHealth.