Diseases Of Infant And Children

Features comprehensive updates throughout the text, including indications, techniques, potential complications in perioperative management of patients, and surgical techniques for congenital heart disease. Covers recent advances in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, developments in mechanical assist devices, heart and lung transplantation, and interventional cardiac catheterization. Features an all-new, full-color format that speeds navigation and helps clarify complex concepts. Contains 27 new chapters with an emphasis on the team approach to patient care in the ICU including creating multidisciplinary teams, quality and performance improvement, training , and challenges and solutions to developing a cohesive team environment. Includes a detailed chapter on bedside ultrasound, walking you through the techniques you’re most likely to encounter in the ICU. Employs well-documented tables, text boxes, and algorithms to make clinical information easy to access, and to provide a more complete understanding of echocardiography, imaging modalities, pulmonary hypertension, and more. Describes the basic pharmacology and clinical applications of new pharmacologic agents. Examines issues affecting adults with congenital heart disease.

This book offers a practical contribution to the alleviation and cure of those diseases which are of most frequent and fatal occurrence. The present work is, from beginning to end, based on preventive as well as curative treatment. The book is not simply a combination from other works of the author. Some of the sections are entirely new; and in all of them important additions and alternations have been made, so as to bring the work abreast with the most recent advances in medicine; while such special points on diagnosis and treatment have been introduced as are calculated to render the manual a useful guide to the treatment of the diseases of infancy and childhood.

Written from the viewpoint of the bedside practitioner the book is intended to serve as a textbook for students and beginners in practice and a work of ready reference and resourceful comfort for the busy doctor as well.

The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.