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.
Table of Contents
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
