Hospital Paediatrics

The child and hospital - history, examination, procedures, blood collection, lumbar puncture, urine, X-rays and scans, parents; the abused child - physical abuse, sexual abuse; the schocked child - causes, initial management, subsequent investigations, respiratory suppot, monitoring, fluid administration, maintenance of blood pressure, specific measures; the poisoned child - principles of management, specific poisons; skin - non-itching rashes, purpura and buising, vesicles and blisters, itching rashes, large blisters, napkin rashes, increased and resuced pigmentation, blemishes lumps and excrescences, diagnostic clusters; ear, nose and throat - sore throat, pharyngitis, nasal obstruction and adenoids, nasal discharge, nose bleeds, ear ache, deafness, hoarseness; airways and lungs - acute and persistent stridor, coughing and wheezing < 2 years and > 2 years, acute coughing episodes, recurrent or chronic cough, atypical pneumonia; heart - heart failure, central cyanosis, heart murmur, funny turns, information for parents of children with congenital heart disease, paediatric cardiology; gut - vomiting, pancreatic exocrine failure, Schwachmann Daimond syndrome, intestinal lymphangiectasis; A Beta lipoproteinaemia; acrodermatitis enteropathica, diarrhoea, lactose, monosaccharaide and cows' milk protein intolerance, abdominal pain, constipation and soiling, gastrointestinal bleeding; liver - persistent unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia, conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia, hepatitis, liver failure, cirrhosis, hepatomegaly, portal hypertension; kidneys and urinary tract - urinary tract infection, polyuria, haematuria, oedema, oliguria, renal failure, dialysis and transplantation, hypertension, stones; blood - anaemia, petechiae and bruising, bleeding disorders, disorders of white cell function, increased susceptibility to infection; cancer - protocols, leukaemia, neuroblastoma, Wilms tumour, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin disease, rhabdomyosarcoma, bone tumours; growth and glands - short stature, diabetes mellitus, congenital and adrenal hyperplasia, ambiguous genitalia, male pseudohermaphroditism, androgen insensitivity, adrenal adenoma / cardinoma, Addison disease, delayed puberty, precocious puberty, thyroid disease, hypoparathyroidism, hypoglycaemia; bones and joints; brain nerve and muscles; newborn. (Part contents).