{"id":438,"date":"2021-09-27T06:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T06:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=438"},"modified":"2021-09-28T00:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T00:55:12","slug":"updated-cpg-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/COVID-19\/\">COVID-19<\/a> CPG has been updated by the CPG Committee.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Children are less severely affected by COVID-19 than adults,\u00a0including those infected with newer variants such as the Delta strain<\/li>\n<li>Appropriate respiratory support should be provided for any child with suspected or confirmed COVID-19<\/li>\n<li>For children requiring high-flow oxygen or nebulised therapy, airborne precautions must be maintained and management must occur in the highest level of isolation available<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 may be an incidental finding in a child who presents with a different illness. Assessment and treatment should prioritise the child\u2019s presenting clinical syndrome<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The CPG includes new sections regarding immunisation and PIMS-TS and a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Victorian_pathways_for_COVID-19_positive_children\/\">Victorian pathways for COVID-19 positive children<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 was an existing PIC CPG and the update includes new sections regarding immunisation and PIMS-TS. It will be considered for continued PIC endorsement in October 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}