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Emergency Department Protocol Index and Downloads

Protocols 1–59

Emergency Department Protocol Commons
Consultation Edition, Version 0.9

This master index provides an at-a-glance route to all 59 protocols in the Emergency Department Protocol Commons. Each protocol may be opened as a stable PDF consultation copy or downloaded as an editable Word document for responsible local adaptation.

The phase pages provide fuller introductions, review priorities and phase-level download packages. These documents remain consultation drafts and are not approved clinical policies. Every protocol requires independent clinical review, local adaptation, medication and dose verification, legal and governance review where applicable, formal institutional approval, staff preparation and ongoing audit before implementation.

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Phase I — Core Emergency Department Processes and Patient Flow

Protocols 1–12

Phase II — Time-Critical Medical Emergencies

Protocols 13–17

Phase III — Neurological and Cardiovascular Emergencies

Protocols 18–23

  • 18. Acute Focal Neurological Deficit, Suspected Stroke, and TIA — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 19. Seizures and Status Epilepticus — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 20. Acute Severe Headache, Meningism, and Suspected Intracranial Emergency — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 21. Syncope, Collapse, and Transient Loss of Consciousness — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 22. Palpitations and Acute Tachyarrhythmias or Bradyarrhythmias — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 23. Severe Hypertension and Hypertensive Emergency — PDF | Editable DOCX

Phase IV — Abdominal, Metabolic, and Toxicological Emergencies

Protocols 24–30

Phase V — Trauma, Injury, and Environmental Emergencies

Protocols 31–37

Phase VI — Maternal, Paediatric, and Vulnerable Populations

Protocols 38–47

Phase VII — High-Risk Treatments and Procedures

Protocols 48–50

  • 48. Emergency Airway Management and Ventilatory Support — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 49. Major Haemorrhage, Blood Products, and Transfusion Reactions — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 50. Procedural Sedation, Analgesia, and Recovery — PDF | Editable DOCX

Phase VIII — Complex Disposition and End-of-Life Care

Protocols 51–53

  • 51. Capacity, Refusal of Care, and Departure Before Completion — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 52. Palliative Emergencies, Treatment Ceilings, and Death in the Emergency Department — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 53. Emergency Department Observation and Short-Stay Care — PDF | Editable DOCX

Phase IX — Departmental Resilience and Operational Safety

Protocols 54–59

  • 54. Infection Prevention, Isolation, and Outbreak Response — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 55. Emergency Department Crowding, Boarding, Surge, and Capacity Escalation — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 56. Mass-Casualty Incident and Disaster Response — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 57. Power, Oxygen, Information-System, Laboratory, Imaging, and Equipment Downtime — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 58. Security, Violence, Missing Patients, and Staff Safety — PDF | Editable DOCX
  • 59. Emergency Department Quality Assurance, Audit, Simulation, and Serious-Incident Learning — PDF | Editable DOCX

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Except where otherwise indicated, the Emergency Department Protocol Commons is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Publication within the Commons does not constitute institutional approval, professional endorsement or authorization for direct clinical implementation. Responsibility for local verification, adaptation, approval, training, configuration, audit and safe use remains with the adopting institution and its authorized clinical-governance bodies.