JRCALC Clinical Guidelines 2021 Pocket Book

The JRCALC Pocket Book is the easy-to-use guide to emergency care for healthcare professionals on the road and in the community. The new 2021 edition includes numerous updated and essential algorithms, as well as an extensive UK drugs formulary and Page for Age drugs tables, making medicines administration more simple and more safe.

JRCALC provides reference and reassurance for busy clinicians.

​Updates to the Guidelines​

JRCALC and AACE publish updates to the guidelines on our apps, iCPG and JRCALC Plus. The 2021 edition has been brought up to date with all the latest significant changes on the app. This includes updates to assessment tools and algorithms, such as:

• Glasgow Coma Scale
• Convulsions (Adults) algorithm
• Trauma Emergencies Overview (Adults and Children) algorithms
• Post-partum haemorrhage algorithm

Guidance on medicines has also been updated, including:

• Morphine sulfate
• Dexamethasone
• Naloxone
• Diazepam
• Salbutamol
• Oxygen
• Misoprostol
• Adrenaline 1 milligram in 10 ml
• Tranexamic acid

For more details on the latest JRCALC clinical updates, please see summaries here: https://aace.org.uk/jrcalc-updates-2019/

​Questions and Feedback​

If you have any questions about the guidelines, please visit https://aace.org.uk/jrcalc-qas/, which publishes answers to commonly asked questions.

If you have any feedback or would like to raise a query on the guidelines which is not covered by the commonly asked questions, please visit: https://aace.org.uk/clinical-practice-guidelines/feedback/.

Citing the JRCALC Guidelines​

The JRCALC Guidelines are cited as:

Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee, Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (2019) JRCALC Clinical Guidelines 2019. Bridgwater: Class Professional Publishing.