Safe Care in Paediatrics

This unique textbook is designed to promote quality and safe care of children, reduce common clinical errors and delayed diagnoses, and provide practical advice on potential pitfalls and red flags from neonatal care to mental health issues in adolescence. It is particularly useful for trainees but also relevant to experienced practitioners. The book takes the reader through recent advances in diagnosis, common presentations, and how to identify the sick child, with case studies and illustrations to bring the text to life.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 268 pages
Publication date: 01 May 2024
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

This unique textbook is written by clinicians with years of experience in paediatrics to promote quality and safe care of children and reduce common clinical errors and delayed diagnoses. It is designed for anyone who needs to make a clinical decision about infants and children, from a medical, nursing, or health professional background. The book offers practical advice on potential pitfalls and red flags from neonatal care to mental health issues in adolescence, with case studies and illustrations to bring the text to life. The strengths of the book include the ability to learn from other's experiences and mistakes, sub-specialists in Paediatrics with a focus on presentations to first responders, instructive case scenarios highlighting clinical pearls and pitfalls to avoid, high-quality clinical images throughout, unique chapters on safe care for infants and children, avoiding errors, picking up the sick child with practical tips, potential pitfalls in both the newborn and 6-week examinations, unraveling the diagnosis in an infant or child with a fever, key symptoms and signs guiding family doctors to suspect cancer in childhood, mental health issues in adolescence, ordering and interpreting tests in children, and surviving and thriving throughout a career in paediatric nursing or medicine.

Dimension: 235 x 191 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780443108853