ViCTOR

In 2013 the Victorian Paediatric Clinical Network (VPCN) funded a joint proposal by The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) and Monash Children’s Hospital to develop a set of Statewide Paediatric Observation and Response Charts, now known as ViCTOR (Victorian Children’s Tool for Observation and Response).

The ViCTOR charts utilise the most recent evidence in newborn and paediatric vital sign parameters as well as human factor elements such as colour, font and layout to assist clinicians to recognise and respond to clinical deterioration in newborn and paediatric patients.

The ViCTOR charts are available for any Victorian health service with newborn and/or paediatric patients up to the 18^th birthday and are designed to be used in conjunction with the health services local paediatric procedures.

There are 8 types of ViCTOR charts as detailed below.

CHART	LAUNCH DATE	INTENDED AREA OF USE
ViCTOR	October 2014	Inpatient settings
ViCTOR Urgent Care	November 2015	Urgent Care Centres, specifically in rural hospitals
ViCTOR Neurological	November 2015	As an accompaniment to ViCTOR and ViCTOR Urgent Care Charts
ViCTOR BirthSuite / Postnatal	May 2017	Birth Suite Settings and Postnatal Units
ViCTOR Special Care Nursery	May 2017	Special Care Nursery environments
ViCTOR Paediatric Fluid Management Chart	July 2018	Paediatric Inpatients, Emergency Departments and Recovery units
ViCTOR SCN Fluid Management Chart	July 2018	Special Care Nursery environments
ViCTOR Paediatric Medical Emergency Metrics Form	July 2018	A minimum medical emergency dataset