PAEDIATRIC HANDBOOK. 10TH EDITION

Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
RCH Handbook list
Preface
1. Communication in the Paediatric Consultation
2. Ethics
3. Resuscitation and Medical Emergencies
4. Poisoning and Envenomation
5. Procedures
6. Pain management
7. Fluid and Electrolytes
8. Prescribing and Therapeutics
9. Immunisation
10. Nutrition
11. Growth
12. Adolescent Medicine
13. Allergy
14. Behaviour and Mental health
15. Cardiology
16. Clinical genetics
17. Dentistry
18. Dermatology
19. Endocrinology
20. Forensic medicine
21. Gastroenterology
22. Gynaecology
23. Haematology
24. Immunology
25. Infectious diseases
26. Metabolic medicine
27. Neonatal medicine
28. Neurodevelopment and Disability
29. Neurology
30. Oncology
31. Ophthalmology
32. Orthopaedics
33. Otolaryngology
34. Palliative care
35. Refugee Health
36. Rehabilitation medicine
37. Renal medicine
38. Respiratory medicine
39. Rheumatology
40. Sleep medicine
41. Surgery
42. Trans and gender diverse health
Appendix: Antimicrobial guidelines
Index

The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Paediatric Handbook is a trusted guide to managing common and serious childhood illnesses and disorders. This bestselling resource provides students and practitioners across medical, nursing, and allied health fields with authoritative and up-to-date information on a comprehensive range of paediatric topics, enabling readers to make the appropriate decisions at the point of care.

Now in its tenth edition, the Handbook features clear illustrations and evidence-based diagnostic and management algorithms throughout, covering resuscitation and medical emergencies, prescribing and therapeutics, medicine, surgery, procedures, and much more.
• Contains accessible summaries of common and serious paediatric illnesses and disorders
• Aligns with latest clinical practice guidelines
• Features numerous full-colour photos, illustrations, diagrams, and clinical images
• Provides practical guidance on professional ethics and communication in paediatric consultations
• Includes updated information on refugee health and trans and gender diverse health

Paediatric Handbook is an invaluable reference for medical practitioners, nurses and allied health professionals, as well as students and trainees.

Authors
• Dr Kate Harding, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Australia.
• Dr Daniel Mason, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Australia.
• Daryl Efron, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Australia.