Recent Advances in Paediatrics 22

Summary:
Recent Advances in Paediatrics 22 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 22 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

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

• Featuring an annotated literature review, this is a truly invaluable book for both qualified and trainee paediatricians

Table of Contents:
1. Abusive head trauma - Carole Jenny
2. Sudden unexpected death in infancy - Peter Sidebotham, Peter Fleming, Peter Blair
3. Fatal pertussis - Scott A. Halperin
4. Latex allergy - Jason Barling, Jonathan Hourihane
5. Congenital brachial palsy - L. Gareth Evans-Jones, Rolfe Birch
6. Withdrawal from drugs of addiction in newborn infants - Kathryn Johnson
7. Magnetic resonance imaging of injury to the preterm brain - Leigh E. Dyet, Frances M. Cowan
8. Neonatal thrombocytopenia - Oliver Tunstall-Pedoe, Irene Roberts
9. Management of jaundice in preterm infants - Jon F. Watchko, M. Jeffrey Maisels
10. Infantile food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome - Mirna Chehade, Scott H. Sicherer
11. Reducing distress during venepuncture - Alistair J.A. Duff, Alison K. Bliss
12. Bone densitometry using dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) - Mary S. Fewtrell
13. Speech and language delay in children - Jamiu O. Busari
14. Trachoma - Anthony W. Solomon, David C.W. Mabey
15. Paediatric literature review – 2003 - Timothy J. David
Index

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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