| ABC | Airways, Breathing, Circulation | 
| APLS | Advanced Paediatric Life Support | 
| AVPU | Alert Voice Pain Unresponsive | 
| B/P | Blood Pressure | 
| CPD | Continuous Professional Development | 
| CRT | Capillary Refill Time | 
| DTA | Decision to admit | 
| ED | Hospital Emergency Department/ Accident & Emergency | 
| GCS | Glasgow Coma Scale | 
| HR | Heart Rate | 
| MOI | Mechanism of Injury | 
| PEWS | Paediatric Early Warning Score | 
| RR | Respiratory Rate | 
| SDEC | Same Day Emergency Care (patient is treated & discharged the same day) | 
| WBC | White Blood Cell Count |