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Focuses on the learning needs of the MRCPCH clinical exam. This book features the most common short cases with notes on examination technique, useful background information and summaries of cases seen in exams focussing on practical approach.
Nutrition in Infancy: Volume 2 is a very useful resource for all clinicians treating and preventing nutritional problems in infants. This volume covers a wide range of topics that support wellness in infants through the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, malnutrition, and developmental and genetic abnormalities. A variety of chapters deal with nutrients for infants with disabilities, surgery, and other special needs. The sections in this volume discuss GI Tract Considerations, Formulas, probiotics, hormones and lipids in the health and disease of infants, and the growth and development of infants. In Nutrition in Infancy: Volume 2, a wide range of nutritional and food related therapies to prevent or ameliorate disease, growth retardation and promote health are outlined. The latest developments in diagnostic procedures and nutritional support are also included. Written by a group of international experts, this volume is an indispensable new reference for clinicians with an interest in the nutrition and health of pregnant mothers and their infants.
Reflecting the latest exam formats, this book provides essential revision for those taking the Paediatric Membership exams - MRCPCH Papers 1a and 1b, and DCH diploma. Features over 500 completely up-to-date questions. Includes subject-based chapters for focussed revision. Includes all question formats likely to be encountered in the exam - BOF, MCQs and EMQs. Contains expanded answers to every question, helping students build understanding and confidence for success. Written by experienced, practising Paediatric Specialist Registrars, and edited by renowned author R Mark Beattie.
This book represents a much-needed paediatric reference book, especially with regards to developing countries. It will be of interest and use to all professional stakeholders in paediatrics and child health, including paediatricians, general practitioners, family medicine specialists, paediatric teachers and lecturers, and medical students. It covers a wide range of topics including clinical paediatrics, preventive and social paediatrics, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, child health, clinical history taking, systemic physical examination and clinical reasoning. It also considers interdisciplinary areas like paediatric dermatology and paediatric orthopaedics. As such, this is an invaluable book, and it brings together a wide range of experienced experts from various specialties and institutions.
In this second edition, new questions have been added and existing material has been updated. The book's hybrid format bridges the gap between standard MCQ books and textbooks. It contains 280 exam-based paediatric MCQs written by a team of subject specialists. Each question is accompanied by the correct answer, plus a page-long subject summary focusing on the specific topics likely to occur in the examination, including lists, mnemonics and bullet points. This new format is a response to requests from exam candidates for longer teaching notes to counteract the need to refer to unncessarily detailed textbooks.
Linear growth is a biological process of fundamental importance to the physical and psychological make-up of a child and adolescent but which can be subject to a number of interruptions and disorders. The management and treatment of patients with growth disorders constitues a major, and important, part of practice in clinical paediatrics, while in public health terms growth assessment remains one of the most useful indices of health and economic well being in both developed and the developing world. This book approaches growth and its disorders from both a physiological and pathophysiological standpoint. The book outlines in detail the fundamental biological mechanisms of normal and abnormal...
Offers a novel solution to technology addiction through legal action to pressure the technology industry to re-design its products.
The Oxford Textbook of Paediatric Pain brings together clinicians, educators, trainees and researchers to provide an authoritative resource on all aspects of pain in infants, children and youth.
Written by a team of experts in the field this unique book is a practical guide for the care of cystic fibrosis patients based on day-to-day experience and scientific evidence. Chapters cover every aspect of care from basic daily respiratory and gastroenterology management to the more common complications in cystic fibrosis and includes problem solving more complex issues. Covering all areas of clinical and psychosocial care for the cystic fibrosis patient, Cystic Fibrosis Care is designed to allow quick access to relevant information and is an invaluable guide for physiotherapists, GPs, paediatricians, nurses and dieticians. Quick access to relevant information Boxes throughout the text to reinforce important messages Chapters to cover every aspect of care from basic daily respiratory and gastroenterology management, the more common complications in CF, to problem solving more complex issues
This textbook provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the major issues specific to the field of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition. The first part of the book, Gastroenterology and Nutrition, presents in a systematic way the overall scope of issues encountered by children (newborn to teenagers) suffering from disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas and/or presenting nutritional issues. These chapters are structured in logical sections to facilitate consultation and include major topics ranging from congenital disorders to gastrointestinal problems of the newborn, infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, and approach to nutritional prob...