Building Blocks in Paediatrics - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource - Access Card, 1st Edition
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource - Access Card
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- Clinical vignettes to highlight key learning points
- Over 90 case scenarios sprinkled throughout the book with clinical pearls, interpretation of investigations and pitfalls to avoid for each scenario
- List of key points to be obtained from a consultation to support doctors in the clinic
- All key procedures in neonatology and paediatrics are covered
- Problem-solving practice to test knowledge
- Section 4 hosts unique chapters not least safe practice, dealing with uncertainty, the avoidance of errors, ethical dilemmas, ECG and laboratory interpretation of results, neonatal and paediatric procedures and critical journal reading
- High-quality clinical pictures, cardiac pictures, ECGs and radiology images to support learning
- Content suitable for students, GPs and specialists
- Includes 20 podcasts
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Section 1 The core elements of paediatrics
1 The well child
2 Taking a paediatric history
3 Physical and developmental examination
4 The newborn and six week check
5 Feeding issues and failure to thrive
6 Growth and puberty
7 The obesity epidemic
Section 2 Symptom-based (all chapters with editing by subspecialists in Ireland and the UK)
8 Food allergies
9 The pale child
10 Congenital heart disease
11 The child with a cough
12 Diabetes mellitus
13 Diarrhoea
14 Fever and its differentials and approach
15 Joint pains
16 Headaches
17 Frequent infections
18 Inborn errors of metabolism
19 Skin rashes
20 Seizures
21 Common surgical issues
22 Safeguarding
23 Neurodisability
24 Problems with the kidneys
25 Acute severe illness
26 Genetics and evaluation for dysmorphic features
Section 3 Common conditions by age
27 Common problems in infancy
28 Frequent flyers in toddlers
29 Issues in school going children
30 Adolescence and adolescent mental health issues
Section 4 Advanced
31 Laboratory interpretation
32 Illness without disease
33 Learning from clinical events
34 ECG interpretation
35 Ethics, professionalism and advocacy
36 Common neonatal problems and neonatal procedures
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Alfred John Nicholson, FRCPI FRCPCH, Professor of Paediatrics and Head of the School of Medicine, RCSI Bahrain and Kevin Dunne, MD FRCPI, Professor of Paediatrics, RCSI Bahrain
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