{"id":462,"date":"2021-11-09T07:45:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T07:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=462"},"modified":"2021-11-09T07:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T07:45:38","slug":"updated-cpg-the-acutely-swollen-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-the-acutely-swollen-joint\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: The acutely swollen joint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/The_acutely_swollen_joint\/\">The acutely swollen joint<\/a> has been updated by the CPG Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There are many causes of an acutely swollen joint. The aim of initial assessment is to identify and treat serious ones<\/li>\n<li>Acute inability to walk or weight bear is a red flag<\/li>\n<li>Septic arthritis is an orthopaedic emergency and should be suspected in any child presenting with localised severe joint pain and swelling, especially with fever<\/li>\n<li>Children discharged with an unclear diagnosis require early follow up<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acutely swollen joint was an existing RCH CPG that will be considered for PIC endorsement in December 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-462","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\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}