In pediatric intensive care, as in most areas of clinical practice, we learn best by experience. No textbook can hope to replace the learning process that occurs from long hours of clinical practice, the experience of decision-making (whether right or wrong), and the deeply ingrained learning that comes from the process of clinical apprenticeship.
This book, with its very practically oriented chapters dealing with both common and less common clinical problems, and illustrated with structured case studies, goes a long way in helping the novice (or experienced) intensivist to focus, get to grips with, and learn from the experience and knowledge of recognized experts in the field.
The editors and chapter contributors have carefully avoided the usual uninspiring “politically correct” forms used in many publications to present systematic reviews and meta-analyses, but have not sacrificed any of the clinical or epidemiological rigor inherent in those standard forms of presentation.
This book, with its refreshing and helpful emphasis on the human and humane as well as on the scientific aspects of pediatric intensive care will, I believe, have an important role in the training of future intensivists. For those clinicians involved in the care of children, but who are not usually directly involved in the field of pediatric intensive care, this book will also provide the reader with useful insights into the processes of caring for critically ill children.
Contents
- 1. Respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis
- 2. The infant with meningococccal septicemia
- 3. A 2-year-old child with acute bacterial meningitis
- 4. Management of a neonate with hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- 5. Child with a head injury
- 6. Management of diabetic ketoacidosis in a child
- 7. Tricyclic antidepressant poisoning in children
- 8. Management of hemolytic uremic syndrome
- 9. Management of severe acute asthma in children
- 10. The neonate with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
- 11. Critical care for a child with 80% burns
- 12. Coarctation of the aorta in a neonate
- 13. The 2-month-old with severe pertussis (whooping cough)
- 14. Pericardial effusion in a child
- 15. Management of non-accidental injury on the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- 16. Management of a 3-year-old child with drowning
- 17. Child with dengue hemorrhagic fever
- 18. The child with HIV infection
- 19. Refractory narrow complex tachycardia in infancy
- 20. The neonate with hyperammonemia
- 21. Management of acute heart failure in pediatric intensive care
- 22. Tetralogy of Fallot
- 23. The child with thermal injury and smoke inhalation
- 24. A child with multiple trauma
- 25. Management of the patient with a failing fontan – morbidities of a palliative procedure
- 26. Sepsis in a BMT patient admitted to PICU
- 27. Management of sagittal sinus thrombosis in a child
- Index
- Color plates
About the Author
- Peter J. Murphy is Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist and Intensivist, Paediatric Intensive Care, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK.
- Stephen C. Marriage is Associate Specialist in Paediatric Intensive Care, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK.
- Peter J. Davis is Consultant Paediatric Intensivist, Paediatric Intensive Care, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK.
Book Details
- Paperback: 348 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (July 6, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521878349
- ISBN-13: 978-0521878340
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
List Price: $80.00