Written by clinicians with years of experience in paediatrics, Safe Care in Paediatrics is designed to promote quality and safe care of children, and reduce common clinical errors and delayed diagnoses through shared first-hand experiences. This book is for anyone who needs to make a clinical decision about infants and children- be they from a medical, nursing or health professional background. The text is particularly useful for trainees but is also relevant to experienced practitioners.
The aim of the book is to prevent errors and ensure safe care. The authors offer practical advice on potential pitfalls and red flags from neonatal care to mental health issues in adolescence . This book takes the reader through recent advances in diagnosis, common presentations and how to identify the sick child, all with case studies and illustrations to bring the text to life.
1. Towards Safer Care for Children 2. Responding to Errors 3. Recognising the Sick Child 4. Managing the Febrile Infant or Child 5. The Newborn and Six-week Examinations 6. Important Rashes to Recognise in Infants and Children 7. Diagnosing Cancer in Childhood 8. The Child With a Limp 9. Child Protection and Safeguarding Concerns 10. Important Cardiac Diagnoses in Children 11. Fits, Faints and Funny Turns 12. Presentations of Endocrine Disease 13. The Child With Abdominal Pain 14. Pneumonia in Children 15. Mental Health Issues in Adolescence 16. Neonatal Intensive Care - A Challenging Arena 17. Ordering and Interpreting Tests in Children 18. Commonly Ordered Radiological Tests and Their Interpretation 19. Twelve Memorable Diagnoses 20. Surviving and Thriving Throughout a Career in Healthcare
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