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 eight essential and updated 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 following is an overview of the updates:

• Glasgow Coma Scale
• IPAP Suicide Risk Levels & Assessment Tool
• Convulsions (Adults) algorithm
• Trauma Emergencies Overview (Adults) algorithm
• Intravascular Fluid Therapy (Adults) algorithm
• Intravascular Fluid Therapy (Children) algorithm
• Maternity algorithms
• Various changes to Meds guidance, including a major overhaul of the Morphine Sulfate guidance.

Updates are also summarised 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 (2016) UK Ambulance Services Clinical Practice Guidelines 2016. Bridgwater: Class Professional Publishing.

Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee, Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (2017) JRCALC Clinical Practice Supplementary Guidelines 2017. Bridgwater: Class Professional Publishing.

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