Neonatal Guidelines
Neonatal
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Last amended: February 2026 | Review date: February 2031 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Routine newborn assessment (PDF 434 kB)
- Guideline Supplement: Routine newborn assessment (PDF 279 kB)
Flowcharts
- Routine newborn assessment (PDF 50kB)
- Pulse oximetry screening (PDF 124 kB)
- Management during pulse oximetry screening (PDF 74 kB)
Education
- Presentation: Routine newborn assessment (PDF 695 kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Routine newborn assessment
Consumer information
- Routine newborn assessment (PDF 379 kB)
- Could it be sepsis? - a checklist for children with an infection (developed by Children's Health Queensland)
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Last amended: July 2026| Review date: July 2031 | Show history
Guideline
- Clinical Guideline: Establishing breastfeeding (PDF, 433kB)
- Guideline Supplement: Establishing breastfeeding (PDF, 322kB)
Flowcharts
Education
- Presentation: Establishing breastfeeding part 1: normal pathway (PDF, 663kB)
- Presentation: Establishing breastfeeding part 2: pathway variances (PDF, 337kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Establishing breastfeeding
Consumer information
- Breastfeeding your baby (PDF, 1,045kB)
- Breastfeeding and medicines (PDF, 604kB)
- Poster: Breastfeeding cues (Term) (PDF, 2774kB)
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Last amended: November 2023 | Review date: November 2028 | Show history
Guideline
- Clinical Guideline: Newborn hypoglycaemia (PDF, 686kB)
- Guideline Supplement: Newborn hypoglycaemia (PDF, 259kB)
Flowcharts
- Flowchart: Management of the well at-risk baby in first 48 hours of life (PDF, 108kB)
- Flowchart: Critical hypoglycaemia: BGL less than 1.5 mmol/L, recurrent, prolonged or symptomatic (PDF, 81kB)
Education
Consumer information
- Newborn hypoglycaemia (PDF, 474kB)
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Last amended: July 2024 | Review date: Dec 2026 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (PDF, 504kB)
- Supplement: Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (PDF, 306kB)
Flowcharts
- Flowchart: Clinical features, investigations and management (PDF, 65kB)
- Flowchart: Criteria for therapeutic hypothermia (cooling) (PDF, 69kB)
- Flowchart: Checklist for therapeutic hypothermia (cooling) (PDF, 100kB)
- Flowchart: Passive cooling (PDF, 81kB)
Education
- Presentation: Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (PDF, 392kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
Clinical form
Consumer information
- Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (PDF, 441kB)
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Last amended: September 2025 | Review date: September 2030 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Neonatal jaundice (PDF, 641kB)
- Guideline Supplement: Neonatal jaundice (PDF, 245kB)
Flowcharts
- Flowchart: Assessment of neonatal jaundice (PDF, 78kB)
- Flowchart: Guide to phototherapy (PDF, 86kB)
Nomograms for jaundice, phototherapy and exchange transfusion V2 (all updated April 2026)
- Nomogram: Baby greater than or equal to 40+0 weeks gestation (PDF, 238kB)
- Nomogram: Baby 39+0 to 39+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 192kB)
- Nomogram: Baby 38+0 to 38+6 weeks (PDF, 220kB)
- Nomogram: Baby 37+0 to 37+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 220kB)
- Nomogram: Baby 36+0 to 36+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 220kB)
- Nomogram: Baby 35+0 to 35+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 220kB)
- Nomogram: Baby 34+0 to 34+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 216kB)
- Nomogram: Baby 32+0 to 33+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 215kB)
- Nomogram: Baby 30+0 to 31+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 213kB)
- Nomogram: Baby 28+0 to 29+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 214kB)
- Nomogram: Baby less than 28+0 weeks OR less than 1000 grams (PDF, 225kB)
Education
Consumer information
- Jaundice in newborn babies (PDF, 484kB)
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Last amended: September 2025 | Review date: September 2030 | Show history
Medicines - Neonatal
NeoMedQ - Queensland Neonatal Medicines formulary
Guideline
- Guideline: Neonatal medicines (PDF, 322kB)
- Supplement: Neonatal medicines (PDF, 223kB)
Education
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Last amended: September 2026 | Review date: February 2030 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 512kB)
- Guideline Supplement: Newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 233kB)
Flowcharts
- Newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 144 kB)
- Planning the collection of newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 90kB)
Education
- Presentation: Newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 474kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Newborn bloodspot screening
- Newborn Bloodspot Screening (NBS): Clinical skills development (CSDS) course (under review)
Consumer information
Further information
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Last amended: March 2026 | Review date: March 2031 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Palliative and end-of-life care for babies (PDF, 593kB)
- Guideline Supplement: Palliative and end-of-life care for babies (PDF, 284kB)
Flowcharts
- Flowchart: Model of care and principles of palliative and end-of-life care for babies (PDF, 82kB)
- Flowchart: End-of-life care (PDF, 44kB)
- Flowchart: After death care (PDF, 44kB)
Education
- Presentation: Palliative and end-of-life care for babies (PDF, 710kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Palliative and end-of-life care for babies
Consumer information
- Palliative and end-of-life care for babies (PDF, 713kB)
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Last amended: February 2026 | Review date: February 2031 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby (PDF, 496kB)
- Guideline Supplement: Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby (PDF, 286kB)
Flowcharts
- Flowchart: Antenatal care where birth imminent or indicated at or less than 24+6 weeks (PDF, 87kB)
- Flowchart: Consensus approach to resuscitation at or less than 24+6 (PDF, 173kB)
Education
- Presentation: Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby (PDF, 830kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby
Consumer information
- Babies born extremely early (PDF, 1049kB)
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Last amended: July 2025 | Review date: Sept 2026 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Perinatal substance use: neonatal (PDF, 512kB)
- Guideline Supplement: Perinatal substance use: neonatal (PDF, 233kB)
Flowcharts
- Management of neonatal abstinence syndrome (PDF, 229 kB)
Education
- Presentation: Perinatal substance use: neonatal (PDF, 439kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Perinatal substance use: neonatal
Consumer information
- Neonatal (newborn) abstinence syndrome (NAS) (PDF, 531kB)
- Antidepressants and your baby (PDF, 444kB)
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Last amended: September 2026 | Review date: December 2029 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Respiratory distress and CPAP (PDF, 498kB)
- Guideline Supplement: Respiratory distress and CPAP (PDF, 321kB)
Flowcharts
Education
- Presentation: Respiratory distress and CPAP (PDF, 788kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Respiratory distress and CPAP
Consumer information
- Respiratory distress and CPAP (PDF, 788kB)
Additional Resources
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Last amended: Oct 2022 | Review date: Oct 2027 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Neonatal resuscitation (PDF, 720kB)
- Supplement: Neonatal resuscitation (PDF, 202kB)
Flowcharts
- Flowchart: Neonatal resuscitation (PDF, 325kB)
- Flowchart: Neonatal resuscitation reference chart (PDF, 751kB)
Education
- Presentation: Neonatal resuscitation (PDF, 603kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Neonatal resuscitation
- Recorded videoconference: Neonatal resuscitation and oxygen saturation monitoring (31 Aug 2017)
- Education video: Neonatal resuscitation (Mar 2017)
Consumer information
- Newborn resuscitation (PDF, 422kB)
- Baby CPR video for parents—video for parents and carers about how to resuscitate a baby. Developed by CPR Kids.
Clinical forms
- Neonatal resuscitation equipment checklist (PDF, 230kB)
- Neonatal emergency record (SW1210) (PDF, 188kB)
Training Courses
- NeoResus Training Program—Log into iLearn for online courses:
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Last amended: September 2025 | Review date: September 2030 |
Consensus statement
- Consensus statement: Retinopathy of prematurity (PDF, 142kB)
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Last amended: July 2022 | Review date: July 2027 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Safer infant sleep (PDF, 728kB)
- Supplement: Safer infant sleep (PDF, 244kB)
Flowcharts and posters
- Flowchart: Summary: Safer infant sleep (PDF, 63kB)
Education
- Presentation: Safer infant sleep (PDF, 909kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Safer infant sleep
- Videoconference recording: Safer infant sleep (Sept 2022)
- Video - Protecting your baby's airways (from Raising Children Network) (2 minutes 5 seconds)
Consumer information
- Red Nose - Safe sleep and safer pregnancy
- Australian Breastfeeding Association - Breastfeeding and co-sleeping
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Last amended: Dec 2022 | Review date: Dec 2027 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Neonatal seizures (PDF, 525kB)
- Supplement: Neonatal seizures (PDF, 192kB)
Flowcharts
- Flowchart: Assessment and management (PDF, 129kB)
- Flowchart: Investigations (PDF, 130kB)
- Flowchart: Abnormal movements in newborn babies (PDF, 167kB)
Education
- Presentation: Neonatal seizures (PDF, 166kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Neonatal seizures
- Neonatal Seizures (NEOS) online
Clinical form
Consumer information
- Seizures in newborn babies (PDF, 479kB)
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Last amended: November 2023 | Review date: November 2028 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval (PDF, 1.04 MB)
- Guideline Supplement: Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval (PDF,465kB)
Flowcharts
- Flowchart: Antenatal transfer or retrieval (PDF, 98kB)
- Flowchart: Postnatal stabilisation and retrieval (PDF, 98kB)
- Flowchart: Respiratory distress (PDF, 80kB)
- Checklist: Preparation for neonatal retrieval (PDF, 102kB)
Education
- Presentation: Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval (PDF, 640kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval
Consumer information
- Baby needing transfer (PDF, 430kB)
Training course
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Last amended: March 2026 | Review date: March 2027 | Show history
Guideline
- Guideline: Term small for gestational age baby (PDF, 713kB)
- Supplement: Term small for gestational age baby (PDF, 293kB)
Flowcharts
Education
- Presentation: Term small for gestation age baby (PDF, 895kB)
- Knowledge assessment: Term small for gestational age baby
Consumer information
- Small for gestational age baby (PDF, 842kB)