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Guideline Advisory Group

Professor Meredith Borland (co-chair; Perth Children’s Hospital; The University of Western Australia, WA, Australia), Professor Stuart R Dalziel (co-chair; Starship Children’s Hospital; The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand), Professor Franz Babl (Royal Children’s Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia), Associate Professor Elizabeth Cotterell (Armidale Rural Referral Hospital; University of New England, NSW, Australia), Dr Libby Haskell (Starship Children’s Hospital; The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand), Dr Kate Loveys (The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand), Dr Sharon O’Brien (Perth Children’s Hospital, WA, Australia), Professor Ed Oakley (Royal Children’s Hospital, VIC, Australia), Associate Professor Emma Tavender (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia), Ms Catherine Wilson (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, VIC, Australia). 

Guideline Development Committee

Associate Professor Jane Alsweiler (Starship Children’s Hospital; The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand), Dr David Armstrong (Monash Children’s Hospital, VIC, Australia), Professor Simon Craig (Monash Children’s Hospital, VIC, Australia), Professor Nigel Crawford (Royal Children’s Hospital, VIC, Australia), Dr Dianne Crellin (Royal Children’s Hospital, VIC, Australia), Dr Sonja Crone (Rotorua Lakes Hospital, Aotearoa New Zealand), Professor Trevor Duke (Royal Children’s Hospital, VIC, Australia), Dr Shane George (Gold Coast University Hospital, QLD, Australia), Dr Christine Jeffries-Stokes (Kalgoorlie Hospital, WA, Australia), Dr Nidhi Krishnan (Queensland Children’s Hospital, QLD, Australia), Dr Anna Lithgow (Royal Darwin Hospital, NT, Australia), Dr Ken Peacock (Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, NSW, Australia), Mr Tomas Ratoni (Northern NSW Local Health District, NSW, Australia), Professor Peter Richmond (Perth Children’s Hospital, WA, Australia), Ms Annie Smith (Southland Hospital, Aotearoa New Zealand), Dr Rebecca Starkie (University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia), Dr David Thomas (Women’s and Children’s Hospital, SA, Australia), Dr Alex Wallace (Waikato Hospital, Aotearoa New Zealand), Dr Michael Zhang (John Hunter Hospital, NSW, Australia). 

Thank you to Ms Poh Chua (Royal Children’s Hospital, VIC, Australia) for librarian services and Ms Marian Chandler (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, VIC, Australia) for administrative support of the project.

Funding

This guideline update was developed with funding support from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence grant for Paediatric Emergency Medicine (GNT1171228), Canberra, Australia, administered by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. SRD, KL and LH’s time has been part funded by Cure Kids New Zealand. FEB’s time has been part funded by a grant from the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, Parkville, Australia, and an NHMRC Leadership grant, Canberra, Australia. The views of the funders have not influenced the development or content of this guideline update.