Emergency Care Algorithms

Reasons to download and use these algorithms:

They allow us to build in adherence to any known literature support (evidence-based).
They help conserve resources by standardizing care orders and resource use. This means they save money!

They reduce confusion. Nurses do not have to guess what cares are necessarily based on the specific provider.
They reduce errors for the same reason. All patients receive a similar regimen, so potential errors are more easily recognized.
They promote team building, particularly when the protocol components involve several different services within the hospital.
They teach a consistent, workable approach. This is especially important to trainees. When they graduate, they are familiar with a single, evidence-based approach that will work for them in their practice.

These Emergency Care Algorithms© are evidence-based and are freely downloadable as part of the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation’s commitment to Free, Open-Access Medical education (#FOAMed). All Medical Education Resources by the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). More details are available at https://www.emergencymedicinekenya.org/legal