Recent Advances in Paediatrics 21

Summary:
Recent Advances in Paediatrics 21 is the latest volume in the successful and well-established Recent Advances series. Each new issue contains entirely new material, written by experts in their field from across the world, and covers a broad selection of topics to satisfy the book's equally broad readership.

Featuring the latest trends, Key Points for Clinical Practice and detailed referencing, Recent Advances in Paediatrics 21 is essential reading for those in specialty training and is a useful update for practising clinicians in this rapidly developing specialty field.

• Essential reading to help doctors to keep abreast of important developments in the subject

• Published annually with entirely new contents written by experts in their field

• Comprehensive update of key topics in paediatrics and child health

• Intended for the practising clinician, those in specialty training and doctors preparing for specialty examinations

• 15 chapters covering a variety of general paediatric, neonatal and community paediatric areas

Table of Contents:
1. The recognition, diagnosis and management of Kawasaki disease - Paul Brogan
2. Developments in the management of asthma - James Y. Paton
3. Advances in diabetes mellitus - Harry Baumer
4. Muscular dystrophy - Helen P. Roper
5. Childhood idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura - Paula H.B. Bolton-Maggs
6. Vitamin D deficiency in children - Nicholas Shaw, Melanie Kershaw
7. Head lice: diagnosis, treatment, and clinical resistance - Joseph G. Mallon, Howard I. Maibach
8. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Jennifer E. Weiss, Norman T. Ilowite
9. The use and toxicity of cannabis in teenagers - Richard H. Schwartz, Eric A. Voth
10. Therapy with inhaled nitric oxide in the newborn - John P. Kinsella
11.Weaning and extubation from assisted ventilation - Sunil K. Sinha, Steven M. Donn
12. Effective and safe sedation for infants and toddlers undergoing procedures - Charles J. Coté
13. Eat dirt – the hygiene hypothesis of atopic diseases - Peter D. Arkwright, Timothy J. David
14. Depression - Philip Hazell
15. Paediatric literature review – 2002 - Timothy J. David

About the Author(s):
Timothy J. David MB ChB MD PhD FRCP FRCPCH DCH
Professor of Child Health and Paediatrics, University of Manchester; Honorary Consultant Paediatrician, Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK

Readership:
Trainees undertaking the MRCPCH examination, trainees in paediatrics, specialist registrars and consultants

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