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Clinical Policies

ACEP’s clinical policies are developed by the Clinical Policies Committee, guided by processes in accordance with national guideline-development standards. The policies are approved by the ACEP Board of Directors to provide guidance on the clinical management of emergency department patients. These ACEP Board-approved documents describe ACEP's policies on the clinical management of emergency department patients. These clinical policies are not intended to represent a legal standard of care for emergency physicians. ACEP recognizes the importance of the individual physician’s judgment and patient preferences.
Acute Blunt Abdominal Trauma (Jan 2011)
Acute Heart Failure Syndromes (May 2007)
Acute Venous Thromboembolic Disease (Feb 2018)
Appendicitis (Jan 2010)
Asymptomatic Elevated Blood Pressure (Feb 2013)
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (Oct 2016)
Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Oct 2020)
Early Pregnancy (Oct 2016)
Fever - Infants and Children Younger than 2 Years (Jan 2016)
Headache (Jun 2019)
Intravenous tPA for Acute Ischemic Stroke (Jun 2015)
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (Dec 2008)
Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes (Jun 2018)
Opioids (Jun 2020)
Procedural Sedation and Analgesia (Oct 2013)
Psychiatric Patient (Jan 2017)
Reperfusion Therapy for STEMI (Jun 2017)
Seizure (Jan 2014)
Suspected Transient Ischemic Attack (Jun 2016)
Thoracic Aortic Dissection (Oct 2014)

Newest Clinical Policies

Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Opioids
Headache
Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes
Acute Venous Thromboembolic Disease

Additional Information

Guideline Summaries from MDCalc
Clinical Policy Development Process
Process for Managing Conflicts of Interest
Past Clinical Policies
Diagnostic Grading Form
Meta-Analyses Grading Form
Prognostic Grading Form
Therapeutic Grading Form

ACEP-Endorsed Policies

Other medical societies, at times, ask that ACEP review and endorse their clinical guidelines. The adjacent policies have been endorsed by ACEP.

Abstracts of Clinical Policies

The ACEP Clinical Policies Committee regularly reviews guidelines published by other professional medical societies. Periodically, new guidelines are identified on topics with particular relevance to the clinical practice of emergency medicine. Abstraction of these guidelines does not automatically imply any type of endorsement by ACEP.

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