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
- Anaphylaxis (new)
- Ankle sprain
- Arthritis - Spondyloarthritis (new)
- Arthritis - Osteoarthritis (new)
- Asthma
- Back pain (external link – Chartered Society of Physiotherapy)
- Burns
- Cellulitis
- Chest infection
- Chest pain
- Colds and flu
- Constipation
- Criteria-led discharge (new)
- Depression
- Eye injury - flash burn
- Eye injury - foreign body
- Fracture
- Gastroenteritis
- Gout (new)
- Kidney stones
- Migraine headache
- Minor head injury
- Miscarriage
- Otitis externa
- Overdose
- Pain and bleeding in early pregnancy
- Seizures
- Tension headache
- Tonsilitis
- Urinary tract infection
- Vertigo
- Wound care
- Wound glue
- Children Fact Sheets
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Please visit the Children's Health Queensland website for children's emergency department patient information sheets.
- Social Support Fact Sheets
