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Emergency Care Algorithms: Adult and Paediatric Triage, Cardiac Arrest and the Resuscitation Pathways

The Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation's evidence-based emergency care algorithms, published as open-access medical education and designed to be used with the MDcalc app. They give the adult triage criteria adapted from the Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale and the clinical pathways for each emergency - adult and paediatric cardiac arrest with the defibrillation and adrenaline sequence, the airway and breathing emergencies, anaphylaxis, status epilepticus, severe trauma and haemorrhage, poisoning and the metabolic emergencies - each as a stepwise chart with the drug doses, the timings and the escalation points, with the standing note that a pathway supplements rather than substitutes for professional judgement.

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