Now in its 4th Edition, this popular handbook provides concise, practical guidelines for the many pediatric disorders encountered by busy practitioners or residents on pediatric rotation. Chapters are presented in modified outline format, but contain - at a glance - all of the information necessary to establish appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Offers comprehensive and reliable information in a quick access format. Organized to facilitate decision-making. Provides tables and algorithms for quick reference. Updates all chapters with the most recent diagnostic and therapeutic advances - all information reflects the current practice. Features more inclusive coverage of fever, ingestions, and minor trauma (including sedation). Features coverage of recent changes in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and immunization recommendations. Explores some of the most relevant topics for pediatric practice, including "Chronic and Catastrophic Diseases," "School Health Issues," and "Otolaryngology and Dental Issues."

A group of leading experts in the field of child health and development believe that there are very practical and relevant skills and steps physicians can use every day that will enable them to be self-confident. The main aim of the book is to assist students of pediatrics by providing practical tips on approach to child health, development and diseases in children. The book provides expert knowledge and practical tips and hints that can be accessed quickly and deals with issues ranging from embryology, anatomy and physiology to pathological states and an approach towards them, in a well-knit comprehensive fashion. The book attempts to offer a full scope of positive strategies to physicians which can be kept at fingertips. Using this knowledge, physicians can take on the challenges, what the world is going to throw at them. Book jacket.

Approach to Practical Pediatrics loved to read as an undergraduate and postgraduate student in pediatrics. This book reflects a simplified approach to clinical cases in pediatrics. New chapters packed with information and practical tips have been added on Anthropometry, Health Indicators, High-risk Newborns, and Leukemia. Detailed and updated information have been added about asthma devices in chapter on Instruments while vaccine controversies and newer vaccines have been discussed in chapter on Immunization. This book also covers new ground about differential diagnosis of hepatosplenomegaly, management of thalassemia and simplified approach to paraplegia. Chapter on Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) includes recent IAP/WHO guidelines on management of severely malnourished child while chapter on Cardiovascular System includes simplified approach for diagnosis of congenital heart diseases (CHD), recent guidelines on management of CHD and rheumatic heart disease in children. This book helps readers to achieve my goal of learning maximum without wasting time in searching answers from different sources.

Heart disease in children has a number of diagnostic traps for the unwary, and all of us involved in the specialty have been caught at one time or another. For example, it is sometimes very difficult to differentiate between respiratory and cardiac disease in infants and between neurological and cardiac conditions in older children, and the consequences of taking the wrong path can be significant. This book is a collection of cases highlighting situations which can ensnare even the best cardiologist. Although they illustrate the importance of taking a good history and performing a thorough examination, the most important lesson is learning to keep an open mind and develop the ability to think laterally. As clinicians we need to have the confidence to make a decision for our patients but also the humility to be able to acknowledge that we don’t always get it right first time, and it is imperative that we learn from the experience. We hope the reader will find these short chapters interesting and while they are not evidence-based medicine in the true sense, they do represent a wide range of clinical experience from which we can all learn. ​

This is a comprehensive textbook of paediatrics that describes childhood disease within the context of social determinants of illness, such as genetic origins and social factors. The emphasis is on differential diagnosis from a presenting-problem viewpoint, making it suitable for any problem-based learning style of curriculum. The new 6th edition is more comprehensive and more concise; the clinical focus is made even stronger with clinical examples. There are more images, and the full text is online at StudentConsult, along with self-assessment, further reading and web links. New co-editor, Mike South Fully updated, rewritten and extended detailed treatment of paediatric illnesses, arranged by systems. Takes into account social factors in paediatrics - the family, problems of adolescence, etc. Clinical examples - clearly signposted - are used throughout. New chapters include obesity in children and adolescents, child health in a global context, child and adolescent gynaecology. Online version of text available on Student Consult. Self-assessment section and further reading, as well as web links, now online.