Emergencies
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Emergency department - what to expect - Better Health Channel
You are treated as soon as possible in an emergency department, but someone who arrived after you may be seen earlier if necessary.
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Emergency departments | Health and wellbeing | Queensland Government
Information about emergency departments in public hospitals including where they are located, costs, how they work, and what people can expect when visiting.
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Emergency Contraception | Family Planning NSW
Emergency contraception is used after unprotected sex.
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Emergency contraceptive pills and weight | Women's Health Queensland Inc
Manufacturer of emergency contraceptive pill warns of effectiveness in overweight women
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Emergency contraception pill | Sex | ReachOut Australia
The emergency contraceptive pill, often called the morning after pill, is a high dose of hormones that aims to prevent pregnancy occurring after unprotected sex. Learn more about it with this guide from ReachOut.com.
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Emergency contraception
The morning after pill or an intra-uterine device (IUD) can be used if a woman has unprotected sex or if contraception fails
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Emergency contraception: Myth busting | Women's Health Queensland Inc
Women's Health's communications team leader Lorraine Pacey sorts fact from fiction when it comes to the emergency contraceptive pill.
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Emergency Respite - Carers ACT
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Emergencies
Emergencies In the event of a natural disaster there can be serious impacts on the ability to manage appropriate self-care for those living with diabetes and other chronic conditions
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Emergency help - BluePages
If you are feeling suicidal, call one of the numbers listed on this page and tell the person answering your call that you are thinking about suicide.
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Emergency services
Advice for emergency services (police, fire and ambulance officers) about how to help children when their parent is experiencing mental illness. Some simple gestures can make a huge difference to the child and their family.
Read more on COPMI – Children of Parents with a Mental Illness website
Emergency Planning and Management
Research & evidence summary on managing palliative care emergencies & deterioration of older people's health in aged care.
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Emergency Planning and Management - Synthesis
Detailed summary & identified gaps from research on managing palliative care emergencies of older persons in aged care.
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Hypoglycaemia - A Diabetic Emergency | Ausmed
Hypoglycaemia has the potential to cause physical and emotional harm, impact on morbidity and, in extreme cases, be the cause of death. It is important to educate people with diabetes within your practice to recognise hypoglycaemia as an emergency and respond without delay to signs and symptoms.
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Hyperglycaemia - a Diabetes Emergency | Ausmed
Hyperglycaemia is the medical condition in which a patient presents with abnormally high levels of glucose circulating in their bloodstream (Better Health Channel 2014). It is common for people not to experience the symptoms of hyperglycaemia until their blood sugar levels reach this high level.
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Paediatric emergency resuscitation cue card - Paediatric Healthcare
Thepaediatric emergency resuscitation cue card and postercontain emergency drug dosages for use on children.
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What works?
About what works: Educational resources to help professionals to understand current and emerging evidence in the COPMI area.
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Antimicrobial use and resistancein Australia | Issue 1 | Volume 40 | Australian Prescriber
Managing the emergence and increasing resistance to antimicrobials in hospitals and the community has become an urgent national and international problem.
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Management of digoxin toxicity | Issue 1 | Volume 39 | Australian Prescriber
Digoxin toxicity can emerge during long-term therapy for heart failure as well as after an overdose.
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Online Environments - a QLife guide for health professionals
The emergence of the internet as a major part of daily life is swiftly changing avenues of social connection, access to information, doing business and accessing health care services.
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