Paediatric emergency medicine can be a challenging and difficult area for doctors. Children cannot always communicate their problems verbally, parents are anxious and the possibility of a missed diagnosis is ever present.
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.
The book has become a standard text for trainees and residents in emergency medicine, but will also prove to be an invaluable, up-to-date resource for any doctor, nurse or paramedic involved in the provision of emergency care to children.
The feedback from the previous edition confirmed the importance of a text with a standardised, easily accessible format and this has been maintained for this second edition. It has though been thoroughly revised and updated throughout, including:
• New sections on teaching paediatric emergency medicine
• The latest paediatric research relevant to clinical practice in the emergency department
• Expanded coverage of adolescent medicine
• The very latest resuscitation guidelines