Society guideline links: Pediatric trauma

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: General issues of trauma management in adults" and "Society guideline links: Increased intracranial pressure and moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury" and "Society guideline links: Minor head trauma and concussion".)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't order CT head scans in adults and children who have suffered minor head injuries (unless positive for a validated head injury clinical decision rule) (updated 2020)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement for the management of the paediatric patient with acute head trauma (2013, reaffirmed 2018)

●Trauma Association of Canada (TAC): Consensus guidelines for a national pediatric cervical spine evaluation pathway (2011)

United States

●Pediatric Trauma Society (PTS): Guidelines hub

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on head trauma – Child (revised 2019)

●Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) and PTS: Pediatric blunt renal trauma practice management guidelines (2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on suspected spine trauma – Child (2018)

●EAST and PTS: A practice management guideline on prophylaxis against venous thromboembolism in pediatric trauma (2017)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on suspected physical abuse – Child (revised 2016)

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), PTS, Society of Trauma Nurses (STN): Policy statement for the management of pediatric trauma (2016)

●American College of Surgeons (ACS), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP), AAP: Joint position statement on withholding or termination of resuscitation in pediatric out-of-hospital traumatic cardiopulmonary arrest (2014)

United Kingdom

●The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth): Clinical guideline on abusive head trauma and the eye (2024)

●Royal College of Radiologists (RCR): Paediatric trauma protocols (2014, reviewed 2017)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian and New Zealand guideline for mild to moderate head injuries in children (2021)