Acute Paediatrics
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-86542-773-0 (ISBN)
Description
This text is designed to provide the busy junior doctor at the front door of the hospital with enough information to make those instant decisions and carry out any essential procedures required in order to stabilize the patient before handing over either to the care of a ward or a specialist. E verything about the book serves this one aim of providing an instant source of practical information when and where it is required. The size of the book means it will fit in a white coat pocket, and it has a durable plastic cover. It is based on the agreed neonatal and paediatric emergency protocols from Europe's largest children's hospital - Alder Hey in Liverpool. As such, it contains the distilled wisdom of a great many paediatricians and neonatologist, and is written in the form of detailed action plans. It is divided into two parts; "Neonatal emergencies" and "Paediatric emergencies", each of which consists three subsections; "Presentations" (signs and symptoms), "Conditions" (diagnoses) and "Skills" (specific procedures and techniques).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
16 line illustrations, tables, charts
Dimensions
Height: 186 mm
Width: 123 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-86542-773-0 (9780865427730)
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Content
Part 1 Neonatology - common presentations: resuscitation; respiratory distress; deterioration on a ventilator; cardiorespiratory or convulsive events; cyanosis; hypotension and shock; heart failure; sepsis; obstructed bowel; jaundice; hydrops foetalis; malformation; hyperglycaemia; specific conditions - hyaline membrane disease, air leaks, diaphragmatic hernia, meconium aspiration syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary haemorrhage, systemic candida infection, meningitis, chicken pox, ophthalmia, pneumonia; necrotizing enterocolitis, gastroschisis and exomphalos arrhythmias, hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, intraventricular haemorrhage, inborn error of metabolism, opiate withdrawl; neonatal procedures - neonatal skills. Part 2 Paediatrics - life support: basic life support; advanced life support; management of heart rhythm; anaphylactic shock; common presentations - fever - pain, abdominal pain, painful or dysfunctional limb, vomiting, cough; upper airway obstruction, shock, acute dehydration, bleeding and bruising, haematuria, jaundice, heart failure, non-accidental injury (NAI), poisoning; specific conditions, acute asthma, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, arrhythmia, supraventricular tachycardia, hypertension, coma, convulsion, head injury, herpes encephalitis, gastroenteritis, urinary tract invfection (UTI), nephrotic syndrome, nephritic syndrome, acute renal failure, haemolytic uraemic syndrome, diabetic ketoacidosis, hypoglycaemia, iron poisoning, paracetamol poisoning, tricyclic antidepressant poisoning, common infectious diseases, Kawasaki disease, meningococcal septicaemia, sudden infant death, near drowning, burns, procedures.