Emergency management of diabetic ketoacidosis in children
Clinical guidelines and flowcharts published by Children’s Health Queensland.
Diabetic ketoacidosis
Clinical guidelines
Use the following guideline to help recognise hyperglycaemia in children and prevent diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).
Early recognition of hyperglycaemia in children under 16 years (PDF 1007 kB)
Information to use with your patients
- SGLT2 inhibitor medicines for diabetes – Consumer information leaflet (PDF 703 kB)
- Sick day management for people on insulin fact sheet (PDF 1007 kB)
- Managing ketones and sick days on an insulin pump fact sheet (PDF 1000 kB)
The Simplified Sick Day Management tool (PDF 372 kB) helps patients with low health literacy manage sick days.
Clinician education
Queensland Health staff can do the Preventing DKA at diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in children under 16 course on iLearn.
Disordered eating with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Clinical guidelines
Managing diabetes at school
Diabetes Queensland has developed school action and management plans to support students living with diabetes. These are recommended by the Queensland Diabetes Clinical Network.
Queensland state school students get diabetes support through the state schools nursing service.
The NDSS Diabetes in Schools program aims to unite families, schools, and health professionals to help students with type 1 diabetes thrive academically.
Insulin dose advice
- Provision of Advice on Insulin Dose Advice Final Competency Assessment and Applicant Declaration (PDF 277 kB)
- Guiding Principles for the Local Credentialling of RNs and AHPs to Provide Insulin Dose Advice (PDF 428 kB)
- Expand your scope of practice (PDF 1593 kB)
- Insulin dose advise (PDF 735 kB)
- Having trouble managing your glucose levels? (PDF 813 kB)
- Have you been hospitalised because of your diabetes? (PDF 540 kB)
- All about insulin pumps (baker.edu.au)
Information to use with your patients
Understanding diabetes
The National Diabetes Services Scheme has resources about understanding diabetes. Topics include insulin therapy, glucose monitoring, exercise and food, and emotional health.
Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF) has resources about understanding type 1 diabetes.
Nutrition and carbohydrates
The Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute have a Carbohydrate counting in exchanges fact sheet and a Carbohydrates and Glycaemic Index (GI) fact sheet. These will help your patients use food labels and tools to count carbohydrates, and how to identify non-carbohydrate foods.
Information published by Children’s Health Queensland
Posters for public areas
Display these posters for recognising early signs of type 1 diabetes in waiting rooms and other public areas.
- English version 1 (PDF 937 kB)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (PDF 566 kB)
- Arabic (PDF 1570 kB)
- Bengali (PDF 1580 kB)
- Hindi (PDF 1553 kB)
- Indonesian (PDF 1543 kB)
- Persian (PDF 1674 kB)
- Simple Chinese (PDF 1714 kB)
- Spanish (PDF 1545 kB)
- Tamil (PDF 1575 kB)
- Turkish (PDF 1547 kB)
- Vietnamese (PDF 1576 kB)