Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, 3rd Edition
Paperback
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Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine provides clear, concise and comprehensive coverage of all the major topics that present within paediatric emergency medicine. It offers a consensus approach to diagnosis and treatment, drawing on the latest evidence available. Short chapters with key point boxes allow for the quick and easy retrieval of information, essential when time is short.
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This Third Edition captures the major changes in guidelines across the specialty in the assessment and management of paediatric patients, whilst refining established approaches to practice. The text reviews both new technologies and the better application of older techniques which have led to changes in practice. There are significant updates to the sections on resuscitation and trauma, the clinical applications of bedside ultrasound, analgesia and sedation. There is also a new focus on the teaching and research sections.
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Section 1: Approach to the paediatric patient
Section 2: Resuscitation
Section 3: Neonatal emergencies
Section 4: Trauma in children
Section 5: Cardiovascular
Section 6: Respiratory
Section 7: Gastroenterology and hepatology
Section 8: Neurology
Section 9: Infectious diseases
Section 10: Metabolic emergencies
Section 11: Haematology and oncology
Section 12: Dermatology
Section 13: Eyes
Section 14: ENT and dental
Section 15: Obstetrics and gynaecology
Section 16: Renal
Section 17: Psychiatric
Section 18: Crisis intervention
Section 19: Administration in EMS
Section 20: Analgesia and sedation
Section 21: Poisoning
Section 22: Environmental
Section 23: Ultrasound
Section 24: Common procedures
Section 25: Orthopaedics and rheumatology
Section 26: Male genitalia
Section 27: Transport and retrieval
Section 28: Teaching paediatric emergency medicine
Section 29: Paediatric research in the emergency department
Section 30: Adolescent medicine in the emergency department
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Peter Cameron, MBBS, MD, FACEM, Emergency Physician, Alfred Health Emergency Service, Gary J. Browne, MD, MBBS, MSpMed, DipMedEd, FRACP, FACEM, FAAP, Professor of Emergency Medicine, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead; Chair of Discipline of Emergency Medicine, The University of Sydney; Head of Academic Emergency Medicine, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia, Biswadev Mitra, MBBS MHSM PhD FACEM, Emergency Physician, Alfred Health Emergency Service, Stuart Dalziel, MBChB FRACP PhD, Director of Emergency Medicine Research, The University of Auckland and Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand and Simon Craig, MBBS MHPE MPH FACEM, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Monash University; Emergency Physician, Monash Medical Centre, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia
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