Description
Book SynopsisThis manual incorporates entire plethora of vaccines recommended in NIP, WHO, IAP and CDC immunization timetable. Available state-of-the-art charts, tables and text of international and national authors and organizations have been included with necessary modifications with due acknowledgement.
- An updated and revised book with detailed information on various aspects of immunization.
- Practical guidelines are incorporated on Vaccine Administration and Safe Injection Practices.
- Diagrams’ showing administering multiple vaccines at the same sitting is a visual guide for readers.
- Latest National Immunization Schedule, 2019; IAP Immunization Time Table, 2018-2019; WHO Immunization Guidelines, 2019; and CDC Adult Vaccination Guidelines, 2019 with footnotes are self-explanatory and updated.
- Learning points at the end of each chapter are the unique feature offering day-to-day practice-oriented learning.
- Tables showing vaccine brands available in India are a ready-reckoner for the busy practitioner.
- FAQs by parents and doctors have been addressed adequately.
- Immunization websites and bibliography have been added for those seeking more information on vaccines and immunizations.
- Basics of Vaccinology, History of Vaccines, Vaccine Development and Future Vaccine make reading this digest a pleasure.
Table of Contents1. The Vaccine Timeline
2. Immunization: The Way Forward
3. Basics of Vaccinology
4. Immunization Schedules
5. Vaccines, Immunoglobulins and Antisera
6. Immunization in Special Clinical Circumstances
7. Adverse Events Following Immunization
8. The Cold Chain for Vaccines
9. Vaccine Development
10. Future Vaccines
11. Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance
12. WHO Position Papers on Vaccines in NIP and IAP Schedules
