clinical practice guidelines

These clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are provided by Dayton Children’s for the purpose of educating patients and licensed independent practitioners on generally-recommended courses of treatment for patients with the identified health needs. These CPGs do not establish a standard of care to be followed in every case, and they are not substitutes for the advice of licensed independent practitioners.

Individual patients may require different treatments from those specified in these CPGs. Methods of reasonable care other than those described in these CPGs may be used to obtain or produce the same results. These CPGs cannot address the unique needs of each patient nor the combination of resources available in a particular situation. Deviations from these CPGs may be justified by individual circumstances. Accordingly, licensed independent practitioners should apply these CPGs based on individual patient needs using professional judgment.

Dayton Children’s hereby excludes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular use or purpose with respect to these CPGs, and these CPGs are provided without any other warranty, express or implied. Dayton Children’s shall not be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages related to the use of these CPGs.

Dayton Children’s currently uses 16 Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs). To view the specific CPG, click on its name.

• Asthma Care
• Anticoagulation guidelines including reversal guidelines
• Bronchiolitis
  • Guidelines for high flow nasal cannula 
• Diabetic Ketoacidosis
• Enteral Tube Placement
• Fever in Infants
  • 0-28 days
  • 29-60 days
• G-Tube management 
• Hematology/Oncology Fever and Neutropenia
• Management of skin and soft tissue infections
• NICU Pain Management
• Procedural Pain Management Strategies
• Sickle Cell Fever
• Sickle Cell Pain
• Sickle Cell Pain with Fever
• Suspected Foreign Body Ingestion 
• STI Prophylaxis after sexual exposure
• Tracheostomy Management
• Child Maltreatment - Physical/Sexual
• Trauma Cervical Spine