SDEC | Alternative Pathways

Alternative Pathways

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Successful Referral

Unsuccessful Referral

Exclusion Criteria

Violent or Agressive

GCS <15

Requiring Isolation

Abnormal ECG

Current Chest Pain

>24 Weeks Pregancy

Routine Bloods

Non Ambulatory

Requiring Isolation

Inclusion Criteria

Aged 18 or over

News 4 or Less

DVT

PE (No SOB on minimal exertion, BP Stable)

Cellulitis (Not Septic)

Recent Chest Pain (Under 50, No Cardiac PMH, Normal ECG, CP resolved)

Headache (Fast Negative, GCS 15, Not in Severe Pain)

Frailty (Consider referral to UCR for Frailty score <4 or Frailty Pathway for >4)

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This is the criteria agreed with the St Peters SDEC Team, it will not necessarily be the same for other sites around the trust.

Contact Details

What is Same Day Emergency Care?

NHS England have produced this video explaining the rationale and benefits to the patient of using SDEC as an alternative to A&E admission. If your patient fits the criteria, assessment and discharge within the same day dramatically increases positive outcome.