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Clinical Practice Resources
SickKids has developed clinical practice resources to help guide health care professionals in the management of paediatric patients with specific health conditions.
COVID-19 guidelines
Therapeutic Management of Paediatric Patients with COVID-19 (PDF)
Last updated: November 16, 2022 (Version 1.0)
Interim Guidance: Myocarditis and pericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in children (PDF)
Last updated: August 6, 2021 (Version 3.3)
Frequently Asked Questions for health-care providers: Reports of Myocarditis/Pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination (PDF)
Last updated: June 16, 2021
COVID-19 vaccination resources
Informed Consent Process at COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics (PDF)
Handout for families: After your COVID-19 vaccine (PDF)
Specially Targeted Education Programme (STEP):
A webinar series tailored to Black and racialized communities across Ontario to provide information on COVID-19 vaccines for health-care workers and others involved in educating communities on their efficacy and safety.
Clinical Guidelines & Pathways
SickKids uses a clinician-driven model with methodological support to develop guidelines and pathways related to patient management at SickKids. The goal of the program is to promote high quality guidelines and pathways, that incorporate best available evidence and local expert consensus, for use by clinical teams at the point of care.
Burns, Plastics & Ophthalmology
Clinical Appointment & Care
Neurosciences & Trauma
Pain & Sedation
Application of Heat and Cold as a Pain Management Strategy
Guidelines for Pain Assessment and Management for Neonates
Monitoring Requirements for Patients Receiving Opioids
Monitoring Requirements for Patients Receiving Regional Anaesthesia
Pain Assessment
Pain Management
Prevention and Treatment of Opioid and Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
Perioperative Services
Appendicitis Management Pathway
Cecostomy Tube Insertion
Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis Care Pathway
Intussusception Care Pathway
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Care Pathway
Laparoscopic Splenectomy Care Pathway
Management of Functional Constipation
Management of Undescended Testicles
Orthopaedic Patients Having Spinal Surgery
Pectus Excavatum Repair Care Pathway
Respiratory Medicine
Sickle Cell
Acute Chest Syndrome or Pneumonia: Guidelines for Management in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Acute Painful Episodes Vaso-occlusive Crisis : Guidelines for Management in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Acute Splenic Sequestration: Guidelines for Management in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Fever: Guidelines for Management in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Peri-Operative Management: Guidelines for In-patient Management of Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Priapism: Guidelines for Management in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle Cell Disease: Guidelines to Hydroxyurea
Stroke: Guidelines for In-patient Management in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
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