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This book addresses the problems faced by clinicians when practicing in areas where medical resources are stretched over wide geographical areas. It illustrates the basics of paediatric surgery thus enabling clinicians to make basic management plans and communicate effectively with local teams.
List of contents
1. The Tropics, 2. The Tyranny of Distance, 3. Transport Considerations, 4. Fetal Medicine, 5. The Neonatal Surgical Patient, 6. The Infant as a Paediatric Surgical Patient, 7. General Surgery in Childhood, 8. Managing Trauma in Tropical Queensland, 9. Paediatric Burns, 10. Paediatric Urology, 11. Thoracic Surgery in Children, 12. Emergency Abdominal Surgery in Children, 13. Problems with the External Genitalia, 14. Minimally Invasive Paediatric Surgery, 15. Volunteering in Developing Countries in the Tropics, 16. Common Problems in Remote and Rural Paediatric Surgical Practice
About the author
Dr Daniel Carroll went to medical school in Oxford and trained in paediatric surgery and urology in the UK and Australia until becoming a consultant in Cambridge in 2008, where he was the surgical lead for fetal medicine, and held teaching positions both in the hospital where he was in charge of paediatric surgical training and the University. Looking for new challenges, he moved to Tropical North Queensland in 2012 where he became the Director of Paediatric Surgery for North Queensland. He holds a higher degree from Oxford University for research into necrotising enterocolitis and is an honorary senior lecturer at James Cook University.
Dr Harry Stalewski is an Associate Professor in Clinical Surgery at James Cook University in Queensland. He held multiple roles at the Royal Brisbane Hospital from 1977-1981, completing his FRACS II in 1984. Dr Stalewski was a Senior Paediatric Surgery Register at both Adelaide Children's Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Sick Children, London before relocating to Townsville in 1987. Since then, he has held a number of board memberships and has Chaired both Paediatric Surgery Queensland and the Surgical Specialities Group at Mater Hospital in Townsville.
Dr Bhanu Rathnamma was trained in India, New Zealand and Australia. He obtained a fellowship in Paediatric surgery in 2014 and has been working as consultant paediatric surgeon at Townsville University Hospital since 2015. He is a keen teacher and holds the position of senior lecturer at James Cook university.
Summary
This book addresses the problems faced by clinicians when practicing in areas where medical resources are stretched over wide geographical areas. It illustrates the basics of paediatric surgery thus enabling clinicians to make basic management plans and communicate effectively with local teams.
