This book, Current Paediatrics, radically offers a new way for medical students, paediatric specialist trainees, paediatricians, and paediatric nurses to access practical management advice. It provides indispensable guides to day-to-day child's care on the paediatric ward, paediatric intensive care unit, and paediatric outpatient clinic. This book - provides first point of call for paediatric doctors facing infants and children with acute or chronic medical and surgical problems, - provides a simple description of the common medical and surgical paediatric practical procedures that need to be done by the paediatric doctors and nurses, - deals with common medical and surgical problems seen by paediatricians and rarer conditions more often seen at tertiary paediatric unit, - is presented in a readily accessible format (with extensive use of bullet points), and - focuses on clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of the common paediatric medical and surgical problems. Contents 1. The immunizations 2. Fluids and acid base 3. Medical emergencies 4. Cardiovascular disorders 5. Respiratory disorders 6. Allergic disorders 7. Endocrine disorders 8. Metabolic disorders 9. Genetic conditions 10. Gastrointestinal disorders 11. Hematologic disorders 12. Neoplastic disorders 13. Immunodeficiency disorders 14. Infectious diseases 15. Renal disorders 16. Rheumatologic disorders 17. Neurologic disorders 18. Psychiatric and behavioural disorders 19. Child protection 20. Orthopaedic conditions 21. Ophthalmologic disorders 22. Ear, nose, and throat disorders 23. Gynaecologic disorders 24. Dermatologic disorders 25. Surgical disorders
