Description
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of commonly encountered infectious diseases in children.
Divided into 25 sections, each chapter covers a different condition with emphasis on assessment and treatment.
Each topic begins with a clinical case followed by step by step instruction on history taking, examination and investigation, diagnosis, and management. Key points of the topic are summarised to assist learning.
The thorough text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, illustrations and tables.
Key points
- Comprehensive guide to diagnosis and management of commonly encountered infectious diseases in children
- Presented as selection of clinical cases with step by step guidance on treatment
- Emphasis on assessment and therapeutic options
- Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams and tables
Table of Contents
- An infant with deep jaundice and acholic stools
- A child with fever for 3 months
- Child with unusual infections
- Adolescent immunization
- An infant with cataract and positive IgM rubella
- A child with prolonged diarrhea
- An infant with microcephaly with recurrent seizures
- Neurocysticercosis in children
- A child with recurrent or non-resolving pneumonia
- A case of recurrent jaundice
- Approach to a child having fever with coma
- General management of a child with coma
- A child with recurrent fever
- Fever with positive tuberculin skin test
- Fever beyond one week
- Case based scenarios in rickettsial infection
- Case scenarios on rational antibiotic usage
- Approach to a case of matted lymphadenopathy
- A child with UTI
- Paediatric septic shock
- Typhoid Fever with Jaundice
- Children with pyrexia and unilateral pleural effusion
- Prolonged and confusing fevers in children
- Fever with splenomegaly
- A child with skin tuberculosis
