Emergency Department Clinical Guidelines

Comprehensive, evidence-based clinical guidelines for emergency medicine practice — synthesized from multiple professional society recommendations covering cardiac emergencies, stroke, trauma, toxicology, airway management, pediatrics, and procedural care.

10 articles Updated Mar 2026

Traumatic Brain Injury: A Comprehensive Clinical Management Guideline

Evidence-based guideline for classification, imaging decisions, ICP management, surgical indications, and outcome prediction in traumatic brain injury across all severity levels.

Trauma Primary and Secondary Survey: A Comprehensive Clinical Guideline

Evidence-based guideline for systematic trauma evaluation including ABCDE primary survey, hemorrhagic shock management, damage control resuscitation, injury-specific assessment, and special populations.

Toxicology and Overdose Management: A Comprehensive Emergency Guideline

Evidence-based guideline for recognition, decontamination, specific antidote therapy, and enhanced elimination in acute poisoning and overdose presentations.

Pediatric Emergencies: A Comprehensive Clinical Guideline

Evidence-based guideline for pediatric resuscitation, respiratory emergencies, sepsis, febrile infant evaluation, seizures, dehydration, and common surgical emergencies in children.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Cardiac Arrest Management: A Comprehensive Clinical Guideline

Evidence-based guideline for cardiac arrest algorithms, defibrillation, ACLS medications, arrhythmia management, special circumstances, and post-arrest care.

Acute Stroke Management: A Comprehensive Emergency Guideline

Evidence-based guideline for recognition, evaluation, thrombolysis, thrombectomy, and management of ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage in the emergency department.

Acute Pain Management and Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department: A Comprehensive Clinical Guideline

Evidence-based guideline for multimodal analgesia, opioid stewardship, ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, and procedural sedation agents and protocols in the ED.

Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Comprehensive Emergency Management Guideline

Evidence-based guideline for evaluation, risk stratification, and management of STEMI, NSTEMI, and unstable angina in the emergency department.

Acute Airway Management and Rapid Sequence Intubation: A Comprehensive Clinical Guideline

Evidence-based guideline for airway assessment, preoxygenation, RSI medications, difficult airway algorithms, surgical airway, and scenario-specific airway management.

Acute Abdominal Emergencies: A Comprehensive Clinical Guideline

Evidence-based guideline for evaluation and management of surgical and non-surgical abdominal emergencies including appendicitis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, bowel obstruction, and mesenteric ischemia.