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Paediatric Handbook

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gwee, Amanda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • QR code
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • RCH Handbook List
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1 Medical emergencies
  • Cardiorespiratory arrest
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Septicaemic shock
  • Drowning
  • Acute upper airway obstruction
  • Behavioural emergencies
  • CHAPTER 2 Surgical emergencies
  • Neonatal surgical emergencies
  • Childhood surgical emergencies
  • CHAPTER 3 Pain management
  • Assessment of acute pain
  • Analgesics for acute pain
  • Procedural pain management
  • Chronic or persistent pain management
  • Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), types I and II
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Pain in children and adolescents with disabilities
  • CHAPTER 4 Procedures
  • Venepuncture
  • Intravenous cannula insertion
  • Accessing central venous catheters
  • Technique
  • Umbilical vein catheterisation
  • Umbilical artery catheterisation
  • Arterial puncture
  • Intra-arterial cannula insertion
  • Intraosseous needle insertion
  • Suprapubic aspiration
  • Urethral catheterisation
  • Lumbar puncture
  • Nasogastric tube insertion
  • Gastrostomy tube replacement
  • Tuberculin skin test (intradermal injection)
  • Suggested analgesia
  • Wound closure
  • Special circumstances
  • Tetanus prophylaxis
  • Femoral nerve block
  • Bier's block
  • Digital/proximal nerve block
  • CHAPTER 5 Poisoning and envenomation
  • Poisoning
  • Envenomation
  • CHAPTER 6 Cardiac conditions
  • Innocent murmur
  • The neonate with symptomatic congenital heart disease
  • Neonatal cyanosis
  • Hypercyanotic spells (tetralogy spells)
  • Heart failure after the neonatal period
  • Supraventricular tachycardia
  • Infective endocarditis
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Cardiomyopathies
  • Syncope and fainting
  • Rheumatic fever
  • Basic ECG interpretation
  • CHAPTER 7 Respiratory conditions
  • Asthma
  • Acute viral bronchiolitis
  • Pneumonia
  • Pharyngitis/tonsillitis, acute otitis media and URTI
  • Laryngotracheobronchitis (croup)
  • Epiglottitis
  • Whooping cough (pertussis)
  • Cough
  • Foreign body in the bronchial tree
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Primary spontaneous pneumothorax
  • Chronic lung disease of prematurity
  • CHAPTER 8 Gastrointestinal conditions
  • Acute infectious gastroenteritis
  • Chronic diarrhoea
  • Toddler's diarrhoea
  • Coeliac disease
  • Non-IgE-mediated cow's milk protein allergy
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Rectal bleeding
  • Gastro-oesophageal reflux
  • Recurrent abdominal pain
  • Pancreatitis
  • Chronic constipation and faecal incontinence
  • Liver disease
  • Gastrostomy care and problems
  • Umbilical hernia
  • Appendicitis
  • Intussusception
  • Pyloric stenosis
  • CHAPTER 9 Fluids and nutrition
  • Fluids
  • Oral rehydration and feeds
  • Nasogastric feeds
  • Intravenous fluid (outside neonatal period)
  • Hypovolaemic shock
  • Replacement and maintenance therapy
  • Acid-base problems
  • The newborn
  • Nutrition
  • Normal variations in breastfeeding
  • Formula feeding