Essential Paediatrics and Child Health

Buch | Softcover
496 Seiten
2020 | 4. Auflage
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-119-42022-4 (ISBN)
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»Essential Paediatrics and Child Health« is a comprehensive and practical guide to paediatric disorders as they present to the student and practitioner, offering step-by-step guidance on symptom assessment, history taking, physical examination, investigation and diagnosis, management and treatment, patient education, follow-up and prognosis. With full-colour images and a range of unique and innovative learning features, this completely revised new edition of the award-winning book Paediatrics and Child Health will prove an invaluable resource for medical students and junior doctors on their journey through contemporary paediatrics.

  • Organises paediatric disorders into system-based chapters for easy navigation, with symptom-based and integrative discussions of all the important diseases and disabilities in paediatrics
  • Combines up-to-date descriptions of the latest in basic and clinical science with the core competencies expected of students in paediatric rotations
  • Self-directed learning is made easy by means of navigation diagrams, tables, key-point and "at-a-glance" boxes, links to guidelines and other summary aids
  • Sections on student experience, self-assessment, doing well in paediatric clinical placements and preparing for examinations and OSCEs
  • Includes a completely new introduction with perspectives on the nature of paediatrics and how best to become engaged and immersed within it, and new content on communication, national guidelines, imaging techniques, genetics and epigenetics, prescribing for children toxicology, the latest advances in diagnosing and treating disease, and much more
  • Provides a companion website containing physical examination instruction videos, a complete set of interactive patient scenarios and multiple-choice questions

»Essential Paediatrics and Child Health« is the ideal companion for medical students and junior doctors to succeed in their studies and clinical practice.

Professor Mary Rudolf is Head of the Department of Population Health, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel, and Visiting Professor of Child Health, University of Leeds, UK.

Professor Anthony Luder is Director of the Department of Paediatrics at Ziv Medical Centre and Special Projects Advisor, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel.

Dr Kerry Jeavons is Consultant in Paediatric Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Yorkshire, UK.

Foreword

Preface to the fourth edition and acknowledgements vii

How to get the best out of your textbook viii

Introduction Doing well in paediatrics

Part 1: About children

Chapter 1 Nature and nurture 3

Chapter 2 Health care and child health promotion 18

Chapter 3 Children with long-term medical conditions 35

Part 2: A paediatric tool kit

Chapter 4 Communicating with children, their families and colleagues

Chapter 5 History taking and clinical examination 51

Chapter 6 Developmental assessment 83

Chapter 7 Investigations and their interpretation 90

Chapter 8 Prescribing for children

Part 3: An approach to problem-based paediatrics

Chapter 9 The febrile child 107

Chapter 10 Respiratory disorders 132

Chapter 11 Gastrointestinal disorders 157

Chapter 12 Cardiac disorders 191

Chapter 13 Neurological disorders 202

Chapter 14 Development and neurodisability 225

Chapter 15 Growth, endocrine and metabolic disorders 252

Chapter 16 Musculoskeletal disorders 283

Chapter 17 Renal and urinary tract disorders 295

Chapter 18 Genitalia 311

Chapter 19 Dermatology and rashes 318

Chapter 20 Haematological disorders 342

Chapter 21 Emotional and behavioural problems 352

Chapter 22 Social paediatrics 362

Chapter 23 Emergency paediatrics 369

Chapter 24 The newborn 399

Chapter 25 Adolescence and puberty 433

Part 4: Testing your knowledge

Chapter 26 Practice examination questions 452

Index 474

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Essentials
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 279 mm
Gewicht 1500 g
Einbandart kartoniert
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Allgemeines / Lexika
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Pädiatrie
Studium 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) Kinderheilkunde
Schlagworte Pädiatrie
ISBN-10 1-119-42022-9 / 1119420229
ISBN-13 978-1-119-42022-4 / 9781119420224
Zustand Neuware
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