PNG guidelines

Updates welcome – please send to jferguson[at]hnehealth.nsw.gov.au

Adult Medicine

• Adult Medical Standard Treatment Guide 2012
• HIV Adult standard treatment guideline 2009 March.  This was the current version in use in 2012.

Paediatrics

• PNG Paediatric standard treatment guides Main resource site for PNG Paediatric Society
• WHO Integrated Management of Childhood Illness resources
• Recommendations for management of common childhood conditions 2012.
• International Child Health Review Collaboration
• Royal Childrens Hospital Melbourne Paediatric Handbook 8th Edition
• WHO Treatment of Children living with HIV
• Manual on paediatric HIV care and treatment for district hospitals WHO 2011

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

• O&G Standard Treatment Guideline  2016

Surgery

• Standard Treatment book – awaited
• WHO Guidelines for Safer Surgery 2009.
• WHO Guidelines for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection 2016

PNG Medical Journal

Full index to all issues with text links are available from here. The PNGMJ is indexed by Medline and so the easiest way to search its content is via PUBMED.

Other references

• Guide to rheumatic fever diagnosis and management- Australian Prescriber 2017

See this quick start guide to PUBMED for more instructions. It is essential for practitioners in PNG to be aware of the local literature as there are many important differences to medicine in PNG which have been well researched in the past.