Key messages

When a patient presents to an emergency department or urgent care centre, they should be given the best available information.

This updated fact sheet helps ensure clinicians and patients have access to easy-to-read information about different emergency conditions.

Give this fact sheet to your patients when discharging them from an emergency department or urgent care centre.

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    Please note that all guidance is currently under review and some may be out of date. We recommend that you also refer to more contemporaneous evidence in the interim.

    Download our fact sheet to provide your patients with easy to follow guidance on chest infections.

    This fact sheet has the #withconsumers tick from the Consumers Health Forum of Australia

    A chest infection is an infection that affects your lungs, either in the larger airways (bronchitis) or in the smaller air sacs (pneumonia). There is a build-up of pus and fluid (mucus), and the airways become swollen, making it difficult to breathe.

    Patient fact sheet

    Get in touch

    Clinical Guidance Team
    Safer Care Victoria
    clinicalguidance@safercare.vic.gov.au

    Version history

    First published: July 2019
    Due for review: July 2022

    Related links

    Kids Health Info fact sheets - Royal Children's Hospital
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