Bring greater structure to your study of pediatric emergencies, from initial assessment and resuscitation to system-specific presentations and practical procedures. The supplied contents span 12 sections, with additional appendices covering approaches and algorithms, and drugs, helping you identify topics for focused review.
Please check before ordering: This product is listed as ATLS Student Course Manual 9th Edition, but the supplied contents describe pediatric emergency care and may not correspond to that title. Confirm the title, authors, ISBNs and contents before purchasing.
What you'll learn
- Review emergency-care foundations and acute life support: Pediatric emergency introduction; medicolegal issues; organisation of pediatric emergency services; child abuse; communication in pediatric emergencies; procedural sedation and analgesia. Resuscitation topics include cardiopulmonary resuscitation and a systematic approach to managing a sick child, airway management and positive pressure ventilation, oxygen therapy, respiratory insufficiency, circulatory failure from shock and arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and post-resuscitation management, heart failure in children, fluids and electrolytes, neonatal resuscitation, and anaphylaxis.
- Organise your review of cardiorespiratory and renal emergencies: Upper airway emergencies, acute asthma, acute bronchiolitis, acute chest pain, respiratory failure in children, lower respiratory tract infection, foreign body, and sore throat. Renal coverage includes pediatric acute kidney injury, acid-base disturbances, approaches to edema and hematuria, hypertensive urgencies, renal replacement therapy for acute kidney injury, acute peritoneal dialysis in children with acute kidney injury, and drug dosing in renal dysfunction.
- Explore neurological and medical gastroenterological presentations: Fluids and electrolytes in neurological disorders; acute seizures and status epilepticus; acute headache and status migrainosus; approaches to acute-onset movement disorders and status dystonicus, acute ataxia, coma, and acute vision loss; brain death; childhood stroke; and pediatric neuro-immunological emergencies. Gastroenterological topics include acute abdomen, approaches to diarrhoea and dysentery, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and acute liver failure.
- Broaden your study of systemic and neonatal emergencies: Approaches to rheumatological, oncological, hematological, metabolic, and tropical disease emergencies, alongside diabetic ketoacidosis and adrenal emergencies. Neonatal topics cover shock and hemodynamic monitoring, respiratory failure in newborns, cardiac emergencies, jaundice, seizures, acute kidney injury, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, management of the bleeding neonate, and neonatal transport.
- Review surgical and environmental emergency topics: Acute abdomen in children, urological, ophthalmological, ENT, orthopaedic, and oral emergencies, plus electrical burns, drowning, and heat stroke.
- Focus on toxicology, procedures and supporting reference material: A general approach to the child with poisoning; analgesics; common drugs; household products and pesticides; natural toxins and envenomations; and foods, dietary substances and metals. Procedures include vascular access, pulse oximetry, urinary catheterization, thoracocentesis, suprapubic aspiration, the Heimlich manoeuvre, and cervical spine stabilization. Appendix 1 covers approaches and algorithms; Appendix 2 covers drugs.
Who this is for
For medical students, trainees and healthcare professionals seeking study material on pediatric and neonatal emergency care. If you specifically need the ATLS student manual, verify this listing’s identity before ordering, because the supplied title and pediatric contents may not match.
Details
- Listed title: ATLS Student Course Manual 9th Edition
- Brand / publisher supplied: Orthopedics Library
- Publisher in specifications: Other Publisher
- Authors: Michael Engelhardt, Karl-Heinz Orend
- Edition: 9
- ISBNs: 9783110639810, 3110639815
- Published date: 2020-11-09
- Pages: 409
- Supplied contents: Section 1: Pediatric Emergency—An Introduction; Section 2: Pediatric Resuscitation and Acute Life Support; Section 3: Cardio Respiratory Emergencies; Section 4: Renal; Section 5: Neurological; Section 6: Gastroenterological Emergencies—Medical; Section 7: Other Systemic Emergencies; Section 8: Neonatal; Section 9: Surgical Emergencies; Section 10: Environmental Emergencies; Section 11: Toxicology; Section 12: Procedures; Appendix 1: Approaches (Algorithm); Appendix 2: Drugs.
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