Acute Paediatrics

This text is designed to provide the busy junior doctor at the front door of the hospital with enough information to make those instant decisions and carry out any essential procedures required in order to stabilize the patient before handing over either to the care of a ward or a specialist. E verything about the book serves this one aim of providing an instant source of practical information when and where it is required. The size of the book means it will fit in a white coat pocket, and it has a durable plastic cover. It is based on the agreed neonatal and paediatric emergency protocols from Europe's largest children's hospital - Alder Hey in Liverpool. As such, it contains the distilled wisdom of a great many paediatricians and neonatologist, and is written in the form of detailed action plans. It is divided into two parts; "Neonatal emergencies" and "Paediatric emergencies", each of which consists three subsections; "Presentations" (signs and symptoms), "Conditions" (diagnoses) and "Skills" (specific procedures and techniques).