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The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne is a leading clinical and training centre in paediatrics. This Handbook is a highly popular, succinct guide to managing common and serious disorders in childhood. It is used far beyond the hospital by medical, nursing, and allied health professionals caring for children.
List of contents
Contributors, vi
Editorial committee, xii
Foreword, xiii
Preface, xiv
Part 1 Emergencies
1 Medical emergencies, 1
James Tibballs and Ed Oakley
2 Poisoning and envenomation, 14
James Tibballs
Part 2 Procedures and Pain Management
3 Procedures, 30
Georgia Paxton and Peter Barnett
4 Pain management, 54
George Chalkiadis, Greta Palmer and Jane Munro
Part 3 Fluids and Nutrition
5 Fluid and electrolyte therapy, 71
Julian Kelly and Trevor Duke
6 Nutrition, 85
Julie Bines, Kay Gibbons and Michele Meehan
7 Slow weight gain, 102
Michael Harari
8 Obesity, 105
Kay Gibbons, Zoë McCallum and Matthew Sabin
Part 4 Child Public Health
9 Immunisation, 110
Jenny Royle and Jim Buttery
10 Immigrant child health, 125
Georgia Paxton and Jim Buttery
Part 5 Development
11 Common behavioural and developmental problems, 136
Daryl Efron and Sheena Reilly
12 Sleep problems, 147
Margot Davey
13 Constipation and continence, 154
Susie Gibb and Michael Harari
14 Developmental delay and disability, 160
Catherine Marraffa and Dinah Reddihough
15 Adolescent health, 175
Susan Sawyer
Part 6 Psychosocial Problems
16 Child psychiatry, 187
Maria McCarthy and Chidambaram Prakash
17 Child abuse, 202
Anne Smith and Chris Sanderson
18 The death of a child, 211
Peter McDougall, Jenny Hynson and Mary O Toole
Part 7 Medicine and Surgery
19 Allergy and immunology, 224
Mimi Tang and Joanne Smart
20 Burns, 243
Russell Taylor
21 Cardiac conditions, 251
Paul Brooks and Dan Penny
22 Dental conditions, 262
Nicky Kilpatrick
23 Dermatologic conditions, 268
Rod Phillips and David Orchard
24 Ear, nose and throat conditions, 287
Robert Berkowitz and Michael Marks
25 Endocrine conditions, 298
Margaret Zacharin, Garry Warne, Fergus Cameron and George Werther
26 Eye conditions, 326
James Elder and Peter Barnett
27 Gastrointestinal conditions, 336
George Alex and Lionel Lubitz
28 Gynaecological conditions, 350
Sonia Grover
29 Haematologic conditions and oncology, 360
John Heath and Paul Monagle
30 Infectious diseases, 380
Nigel Curtis, Mike Starr and Joshua Wolf
31 Metabolic conditions, 422
Avihu Boneh and George Werther
32 Neonatal conditions, 431
Peter McDougall and Rod Hunt
33 Neurologic conditions, 452
Andrew Kornberg, Simon Harvey, Mark Mackay and Wirginia Maixner
34 Orthopaedic conditions, 472
Kerr Graham and Peter Barnett
35 Renal conditions, 488
Colin Jones
36 Respiratory conditions, 505
John Massie and Sarath Ranganathan
37 Rheumatologic conditions, 525
Roger Allen and Jane Munro
38 Surgical conditions, 532
John Hutson and Tom Clarnette
39 Prescribing for children, 543
Noel Cranswick and Andrew Rechtmann
Appendices
1 Growth charts, 547
2 Pharmacopoeia, 564
3 Antimicrobial guidelines, 600
4 Formulae, 613
Index, 615
Report
?Well presented summarized information means that you can generally pick it up during a consultation and find the answer to your question.? ( Australian Family Physician , August 2009)
"Besides being a guide to clinical management and for rapid decision at point of care the book is a useful source of revision for students and paediatricians in training.... It is highly recommended." ( Journal of Tropical Pediatrics , May 2009)
