Paediatric Surgery: Clinical Practice in Remote and Rural Settings, and in Tropical Regions

105.00EGP

Paediatric surgeons who practice in areas where medical resources are stretched over wide geographical areas face a number of challenges. This resource provides an easy and useful guide to help readers understand the essentials of paediatric surgery. Using the authors’ own experiences, the text illustrates the different management practices required when dealing with paediatric patients […]

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Paediatric surgeons who practice in areas where medical resources are stretched over wide geographical areas face a number of challenges. This resource provides an easy and useful guide to help readers understand the essentials of paediatric surgery. Using the authors’ own experiences, the text illustrates the different management practices required when dealing with paediatric patients in rural and remote settings.

The most frequently encountered fetal, infant and paediatric conditions are reviewed, together with coverage of trauma, burns, urology, thoracic surgery, emergency abdominal surgery, minimally invasive paediatric surgery, and problems with external genitalia.

A practical guide for clinicians to the common and important problems seen in paediatric surgery, enabling them to make clinical management plans and ensure effective communication with local teams.


Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Editors
Contributors
1. The Tropics
2. The Tyranny of Distance
3. Transport Considerations
4. Fetal Medicine
5. The Neonatal Surgical Patient
6. The Infant as a Paediatric Surgical Patient
7. General Surgery in Childhood
8. Managing Trauma in Tropical Queensland
9. Paediatric Burns
10. Paediatric Urology: A Simplified Approach to Dealing with Urinary Tract Dilatation
11. Thoracic Surgery in Children
12. Emergency Abdominal Surgery in Children
13. Problems with the External Genitalia
14. Minimally Invasive Paediatric Surgery
15. Global Health Interventions in Paediatric Surgery
16. Common Problems in Remote and Rural Paediatric Surgical Practice
Index