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Find the access criteria for acute medicine in the Bay of Plenty.
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Access criteria
Standard operating procedures for acute patient care
Appendix 1: Services for consult per diagnosis or presenting problem.
- This table guides referral to specialities based on diagnosis or most likely diagnosis. It is not exhaustive, and does not override clinical judgement or other clinical agreements.
- Site dependent differences for admissions do exist.
- Tauranga: Patients will be admitted under the relevant sub-speciality.
- Whakatane: Dental, ear, nose and throat, ophthalmology, plastics, cardiology and urology patients will be admitted under the general surgery or medicine team and a discussion with the relevant speciality team must occur by 9am the next day.
Diagnosis / Presenting problem |
Modifying factors |
Service |
|---|---|---|
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Abdominal pain |
Pyelonephritis or UTI |
General medicine |
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Suspected renal or obstructing ureteric stone |
Urology /at Whk GS with F/U consult |
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All other patients (without an obvious gynaecological cause) |
General surgery |
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Alcohol withdrawal |
If severe acute symptoms |
General medicine |
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Ambulation |
Non orthopaedic causes |
General medicine |
|
Gastrointestinal bleeding |
Gastrointestinal Bleeding from upper GIT with or without medical co-morbidities |
General medicine admission with surgical consultation |
|
Gastrointestinal Bleeding from Lower GIT |
General surgery |
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If suspected occult GIT blood loss or unknown cause and requiring admission for management |
General medicine |
|
|
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) / Dissection |
Suspected or proven abdominal aortic aneurysm dissection |
Surgery / Vascular |
|
Thoracic Aortic Dissection |
Suspected or proven non-traumatic thoracic aortic dissection. Distal to left subclavian artery ("Type B") for medical management. |
Type A General Surgery Type B Medicine / Cardiology |
|
Back pain |
Related to trauma, infection or possible disc pathology |
Orthopaedics |
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Osteoporotic collapse |
Orthopaedics |
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Chronic Lower Back pain requiring admission for pain control and physio (i.e. failed trial of adequate pain medications and ambulation) |
Orthopaedics |
|
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Signs of cord compression |
Orthopaedics |
|
|
Secondary to malignancy unless there are features of cord compression |
General medicine if patient not known to another service |
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Cellulitis / Gangrene |
Cellulitis over a joint or evidence/suspicion of osteomyelitis or septic arthritis. Associated with wound (no joint / osteomyelitis involvement). |
Orthopaedics General surgery |
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Diabetic foot ulcer with cellulitis or suspected necrotising fasciitis |
General surgery |
|
|
Infection requiring surgical debridement or amputation |
General surgery |
|
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Facial or odontogenic |
Dental or at Whk GS with F/U consult |
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Periorbital or orbital |
Ophthalmology or at Whk GS with F/U consult |
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Perineum involved |
General surgery |
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All others |
General medicine |
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Diverticulitis |
General surgery |
|
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Epistaxis |
Medical causes e.g. HT / coagulopathy / platelet disorders etc. |
General medicine |
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Local nasal pathology e.g. trauma or tumour etc. |
ENT (in WHK - general surgery) |
|
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Uncontrollable bleeding (any cause) |
Consult ENT for assistance (in WHK - general surgery) |
|
|
Facial Fractures |
Requiring admission |
Maxillo-facial / or at Whk GS with F/U consult |
|
With dental issues |
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Foreign Body ENT |
Non-corrosive |
ENT outpatients (both sites) |
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Corrosive |
ENT (in WHK - general surgery) |
|
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Hepatitis or liver failure |
Gastroenterology |
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Hypertensive emergency |
General medicine |
|
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Ischemic limb |
General surgery/Vascular |
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Ischemic colitis |
General surgery |
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Oncology problem |
Patient currently known to the oncology service and with a related problem |
Oncology or at Whk GS with F/U consult(working hours) otherwise General Medical |
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All other oncology related problems |
General medicine |
|
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Paediatrics |
Of surgical nature (especially if adult equivalent problem) |
General surgery with paediatrics consult |
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Of medical nature |
Paediatrics |
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Pancreatitis |
Obstructive cause (e.g., gallstones), alcoholic |
General surgery |
|
Post ERCP, discuss with consultant who performed procedure |
General surgery |
|
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Psychosis / Delirium |
Presumptive organic cause requiring ongoing medical treatment |
General Medicine |
|
Exacerbation of chronic psychiatric condition and no complicating organic causes identified |
Psychiatry |
|
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No organic cause identified, no previous history |
Psychiatry |
|
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Pyelonephritis |
Obstructing ureteric stone |
Urology/at Whk GS with F/U consult |
|
Pregnant patient |
O+G. |
|
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All other UTIs requiring admission |
General medicine |
|
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Renal Failure, acute |
Due to obstructive uropathy including urinary retention |
Urology |
|
Underlying surgical cause |
General surgery |
|
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All others |
Renal |
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Sore throat |
+ Quinsy (Peritonsillar Abscess) |
ENT in consulting working hours, general medicine outside working hours with ENT consult next morning / at Whk Med with F/U |
|
- Quinsy |
General medicine |
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Stroke |
Ischemic Stroke or Haemorrhagic stroke for conservative management |
Stroke team |
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Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) |
Refer to TIA protocol |
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Syncope / Seizures |
General medicine |
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Trauma |
Thoracic injury (penetrating, blunt) or abdominal injury (penetrating, blunt) requiring admission |
General surgery |
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Head Injury requiring observation or transfer |
General surgery |
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Extremity fracture or ligamentous injury requiring surgical consult |
Orthopaedics |
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Pelvic fracture of any type caused by significant trauma in any age group |
Orthopaedics |
|
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Facial or mandibular fractures requiring surgical consults |
Maxillo-facial/ENT/or at Whk GS with F/U consult |
|
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Vascular injury |
General surgery |
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Intracranial haemorrhage not requiring neurosurgical intervention |
General surgery |
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Vertebral fracture |
Orthopaedics |
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Spinal injury with neurological compromise |
Orthopaedics |