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Policies & Guidelines

ACEM's policy development and review process

From December 2012, ACEM will implement:
• an enhanced policy process to streamline the authoring, review/feedback and approval stages, allowing for more timely development and review of policy documents, along with better engagement and collaboration with committees and broader ACEM membership
• new policy document templates
• policy document definitions. Policy documents include policies, position statements, guidelines and others, and a new category; standards.
Furthur information on this process will be published on the ACEM website in 2013. In the interim, please contact Andrew Gosbell on Andrew.Gosbell@acem.org.au with any questions.

Policies & Guidelines re: Training
Accreditation of Emergency Departments
Accreditation of non-ED Special Skills Posts
Overseas Trained Specialists

Policies

P02 - Standard Terminology
P03 - Minimum Standards for Transport of Critically Ill Patients
P04 - Minimum Standards for Intrahospital Transport of Critically Ill Patients
P06 - Australasian Triage Scale
P07 - Clinical Privileges
P09 - Guidelines on Sedation and/or Analgesia for Diagnostic and Interventional Medical, Dental or Surgical Procedure (ANZCA PS9)
         * Definition of "Anaesthetist" for ACEM purposes   
P20 - Emergency Department Signage
P21 - Use of Bedside Ultrasound by Emergency Physicians
P22 - Credentialling for ED Ultrasonography: Trauma Examination and Suspected AAA
P26 - Privacy
P28 - Quality Framework for Emergency Departments
P30 - Emergency Department Hazardous Material Response Plan: Staff Participation
P31 - Patient's Right to Access Emergency Department Care
P32 - Violence in Emergency Departments
P33 - Disaster Health Services
P34 - Organ Donation
P35 - Child at Risk
P37 - Forensic Testing and Examination in Emergency Departments
P38 - Immunisation in Emergency Departments
P39 - Domestic and Family Violence
P40 - Early Access Defibrillation for Cardiac Arrest in Healthcare Settings
P41 - Access to Care for Patients with Mental Health Conditions
P44 - Provision of Emergency Department Telephone Medical Advice
P46 - Definition of an Admission
P47 - Media
P48 - Water Safety
P49 - Disposition of Patients in the Emerg. Dept.on Notification of a Mass Casualty Incident
P50 - Medical Undergraduate Curriculum in Emergency Medicine
P51 - Care of Elderly Patients in the Emergency Department
P52 - Operation of the ACEM 'Clearinghouse'
P53 - Supervision of Junior Medical Staff in the Emergency Department
P54 - Follow up of Results of Investigations Ordered from Emergency Departments
P55 - Components of an ED Consultation
P56 - Public Health
P58 - Pain Management in the Emergency Department
P59 - Heatwave
P60 - Data Integrity Relating to Data Collection in EDs
P61 - Credentialling for Echocardiography in Life Support
P64 - Intellectual Property

Guidelines

G08 - Management of Deliberate Self Harm in Young People
G15 - Emergency Department Design
G19 - Role of Interns in the Emergency Department
G23 - Constructing an Emergency Medicine Medical Workforce
G24 - Implementation of The Australasian Triage Scale in Emergency Depts
G25 - Minimum Criteria for Ultrasound Workshop
G26 - Infectious Disease and Biohazard Explosure in the Emergency Dept
G29 - Implementation Guidelines for Procedures in the Emergency Department
G36 - Clinical Handover in the ED
G47 - Documents Submitted to the Scientific Committee Seeking Endorsement
G91 - Adjudication of Best Fellow's Paper at Annual Scientific Meeting
G125 - Guideline on Pathology Testing in the ED
G126 - Diagnostic Imaging

Statements

S11 - Hospital Emergency Department Services for Children
S12 - Emergency Department Role Delineation
S17 - Clinical Practice Time Allocation
S18 - Responsibility for Care in Emergency Departments
S27 - Rural Emergency Medicine 
S42 - Tobacco Smoking
S43 - Alcohol Misuse
S47 - Ambulance Diversion
S49 - Health of the Indigenous Peoples of Australia and New Zealand
S57 - Emergency Department Overcrowding
S59 - Cultural Competence
S60 - National Time Based Emergency Access Targets in Australia and New Zealand
S68 - Climate Change
S129 - Intravenous Thrombolysis for Ischaemic Stroke

Documents endorsed by ACEM

Emergency Triage Education Kit (ETEK)
Australian Government | Department of Health and Aging
 
 
Emergency department stroke and transient ischaemic attack care bundle
NICS has developed a set of evidence-based resources to improve the implementation of guideline recommendations for acute stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA) managmenet in the ED.
 
National Stroke Foundation
 
National Stroke Foundation
 

2006 Asthma Management Handbook
National Asthma Council

2006 Guidelines for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes
National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand

National Institute of Clinical Studies
Emergency Care Evidence in Practice brochures
Management of Acute Migraine
Cervical Spine X-Rays in Trauma
Use of Ipratropium Bromide in Acute Asthma