{"id":611,"date":"2023-05-31T08:15:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T08:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=611"},"modified":"2023-07-13T06:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T06:23:43","slug":"updated-cpg-altered-conscious-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-altered-conscious-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: Altered conscious state\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Altered_conscious_state\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Altered conscious state CPG<\/span><\/a> <span data-contrast=\"none\">has been <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">updated and reviewed by the CPG committee and endorsed by the Paediatric Improvement Collaborative (December 2022). This CPG replaces the previous <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Coma CPG<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and it covers the continuum of altered conscious state, from disorientation and confusion to coma.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">CPG key points\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">The aim of immediate management is to minimise ongoing neurological damage while investigation and treatment are initiated<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Parents are the best judge of an altered conscious state, particularly for children with disability<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Consider child abuse in a young child presenting with altered conscious state and signs of injury<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Altered conscious state CPG has been updated and reviewed by the CPG committee and endorsed by the Paediatric Improvement Collaborative (December 2022). This CPG replaces the previous Coma CPG and it covers the continuum of altered conscious state, from disorientation and confusion to coma.\u00a0\u00a0 CPG key points\u00a0\u00a0 The aim of immediate management is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-altered-conscious-state\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503,24433,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter","category-paediatric-improvement-collaborative-pic","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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\/3942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}