Paediatric medicine

Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.

This book explores applied theatre practice for children in environments of illness and cure and how it can powerfully normalise children's hospitalisation experience.

An invaluable resource, Childhood Nutrition provides accurate facts on current concepts in pediatric nutrition, including theories of nutrition in the pathophysiology of disease and in developing nutritional healthcare plans.

This book is a wide-ranging guide to the diagnosis and management of the numerous medical and surgical complications that may arise in patients with sickle cell anemia.

An acclaimed overview of ultrasound for the prenatal diagnosis of congenital anomalies returns in a new enlarged edition.

This innovative textbook uses a problem-based learning (PBL) approach to cover content that is most common to child branch nursing courses.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects related to pediatric sleep and its associated disorders.

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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This book provides readers with international exemplars of nurse-led/nurse-directed pediatric models of care.

Dieses Buch bietet Ihnen das essentielle BWL-Basiswissen, um Ihre Strategien wirtschaftlich gut begründet präsentieren und durchsetzen zu können.

Part of the Paediatric Psychology series Children and young people are increasingly among those being diagnosed with diabetes.

Twenty-five years have elapsed since the first publication of this book.

The most comprehensive, clinically-oriented and authoritative reference dedicated to these diseases, from basic science to clinical management.

This case-based atlas encompasses all aspects of imaging in congenital cardiac defects, cardiac masses, inflammatory and acquired heart diseases, cardiomyopathies and coronary-related pathologies.

A comprehensive survey of fetal and neonatal brain injury arising from hypoxic or ischemic events.

Pediatric Palliative Care: A Model for Exemplary Practice lays out a road map for health-care providers interested in optimizing care for seriously ill children and their families.

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This book is a comprehensive guide to pediatric dental fear/anxiety (DFA) and phobia that will provide practitioners with a full understanding of the etiology, prevalence, assessment, and management of these conditions.

This book is a unique, authoritative and clinically oriented text on pediatric body MRI.

Setting out from the premise that "e;a picture is worth more than a thousand words"e;, this book presents a superb set of illustrations, with accompanying clinical data, relating to a series of cases from a single surgeon registry.

Through 5 editions, Pediatric Nephrology has become the standard reference text for students, trainees, practicing physicians (Pediatricians, Nephrologists, Internists, and Urologists), sub-specialists, and allied health professionals seeking information about Children's Kidney Diseases.

A practical, comprehensive guide to the special needs of infants and neonates undergoing anesthesia.

This book elucidates the process of reading electrocardiograms (ECGs) in children.

Injuries cause more than half of all childhood deaths and a large proportion of pediatric trauma care is provided by non-pediatric specialists.

Children can and do survive cancer; the last decade has seen many major advancements in treatment.

This book outlines the essential knowledge required for the management of critically ill and severely injured children.

Exploring both principles and best practice of the spiritual care of sick children and young people, this remarkable and inspiring book equips the reader to think critically and creatively about how to provide care in hospitals, hospices and other care contexts for ill and disabled children.

A comprehensive collection of hundreds of thought-provoking stories and activities for use in the treatment of children confronting difficult situations Storytelling and Other Activities for Children in Therapy provides professionals with the knowledge, insight, and tools to help children (ages 6 to 12) and their families work through their treatment issues using storytelling and other activities.

Children's nurses are faced with unique challenges when undertaking clinical skills, adapting their knowledge and practice for the physical and developmental age of their patients.

The involvement of children and young people in consultations about aspects of their health or illness is often limited, with their role in diagnosis and decision-making on treatment options secondary to that of parents or carers.

This second edition is primarily for trainees and junior pediatric residents in adult rheumatology who will be seeing pediatric patients with rheumatic diseases.

Midwives and other health care professionals need to have a deep understanding of the various lives childbearing women live in order to support them insightfully and practise in a nuanced manner.

A complete guide to the surgical techniques used to treat childhood skin conditions Recent advances have expanded the role of pediatric dermatologic surgery in both specialist and primary care settings.

The clinical specialty of adult nephrology has enjoyed spectacular growth during the past three decades.

This handbook offers a comprehensive review of intellectual disabilities (ID).

Most medicines have never been adequately tested for safety and efficacy in pediatric populations and preterm, infants and children are particularly vulnerable to adverse drug reactions.

Eltern, deren Baby an einer Entwicklungsstörung leidet oder die Folgen seiner zu frühen Geburt noch nicht verkraftet hat, sind verunsichert und suchen professionellen Rat bei Fachärzten und Therapeuten.

The guidance you need to protect your pediatric patients from medical errorFrom front-line treatment to critical policy issues, Pediatric Patient Safety and Quality Improvement provides all the knowledge and insight you need to ensure your pediatric patients are treated safely and effectively.

An illustrative and in-depth overview of the many available applications and techniques for limb lengthening and reconstruction, this guide provides step-by-step details on the latest surgical procedures for the correction of limb deformities due to congenital defects, growth disturbances, infection, and trauma in both children and adults.

This volume provides practicing clinicians and researchers with an update on treatments found to be effective in pediatric psychology as well as those that are emerging in the field and have promise of being proven effective as additional research is conducted.

This sensitive yet incisive book addresses the medical treatment of children in the city of Strasbourg during Nazi occupation.

There are growing questions regarding the safety, quality, risk management, and costs of PCC teams, their training and preparedness, and their implications on the welfare of patients and families.

The standard reference in the field, this acclaimed work synthesizes findings from hundreds of carefully selected studies of mental health treatments for children and adolescents.

This book will provide both an evidence base and practical recommendations for the treatment of patients with congenital heart disease.

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This comprehensive overview of the known literature concerning the physical and psychosocial health of children conceived by ART brings together an international panel of experts in fertility medicine, epidemiology, medical genetics, obstetrics, twin research, psychosocial development and pediatrics.