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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Language: English

ISBN:9781119420224

Year: 2020

Edition:4th

Pages:536

Author: Rudolf, Mary / Luder, Anthony / Jeavons, Kerry

Product Type: Paperback

Condition: New

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.

CONTENT:

Foreword vii


Preface to the fourth edition ix


Acknowledgements xi


How to get the best out of your textbook xiii


Introduction: Doing well in paediatrics 1


Part 1: About children


1 Nature and nurture 9


2 Health care and health promotion 27


3 Children with long-term medical conditions 45


Part 2: A paediatric tool kit


4 Communicating with children, their families and colleagues 61


5 History taking and clinical examination 67


6 Developmental assessment 99


7 Investigations and their interpretation 107


8 Prescribing for children 123


Part 3: An approach to problem-based paediatrics


9 The febrile child 133


10 Respiratory disorders 159


11 Gastrointestinal disorders 183


12 Cardiac disorders 217


13 Neurological disorders 229


14 Development and neurodisability 251


15 Growth, endocrine and metabolic disorders 277


16 Musculoskeletal disorders 307


17 Renal and urinary tract disorders 319


18 Genitalia 337


19 Dermatology and rashes 345


20 Haematological disorders 371


21 Emotional, behavioural and educational problems 381


22 Social paediatrics 391


23 Emergency paediatrics 399


24 The newborn 427


25 Adolescence and puberty 455


Part 4: Testing your knowledge


26 Practice MCQ and examination questions 471


Multiple choice questions 472


Answers to multiple choice questions 484


Practice examination papers 486


Answers to practice examination papers 492


Index 495

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