Standard Operating Policies (SOPs)

The Department of Critical Care Medicine has written some Standard Operating Policies (SOP).

Current policies include:

• Acute Liver Failure

• Acute Respiratory Distress

• Continuous infusions of meropenem and piperacillin/tazobactam

• Delirium

• Diabetic Ketoacidosis

• Difficult Airway Society Difficult Intubation Guidelines

• Intubation Checklist

• Intracranial Haemorrhage

• Intravenous Fluid Therapy

• Liver Transplant

• Meningitis – Early Management of Suspected Acute Bacterial Meningitis

• Neuromuscular Blockade

• Renal Transplant

• Sedation

• Sepsis

• Status Epilepticus

• Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis

• Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

• Targeted Temperature Management and hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy

• Traumatic Brain Injury

• VTE prophylaxis for neurosurgery

These are provided on this site for your convenience however the most up to date version of these are on Sharepoint and can be accessed from the hospital intranet as shown in the screenshots below. Alternatively you can navigate to:

https://adhb.hanz.health.nz/site/DCCM/SitePages/Home.aspx

Please familiarise yourself with these and use them as a reference for applicable patients.