All-new convenient take-along guide to the full spectrum of more than 80 pediatric tropical diseases and conditions. If you're traveling to the tropics, don't leave home without this go-anywhere resource! Now, for the first time, there's a convenient take-along guide to the full spectrum of pediatric tropical diseases and conditions - more than 80 in all - you're most likely to encounter. Developed by leading international child health authorities, with contributions from more than 40 experienced practitioners, the all-new Atlas is the only handbook-sized text focused exclusively on pediatric.
All-new convenient take-along guide to the full spectrum of more than 80 pediatric tropical diseases and conditions. A full-color comprehensive resource for treatment of pediatric tropical disease. Includes dosing information for all diseases discussed, at-a-glance endemicity maps, and weight/height tables for use in assessing nutritional status. Includes a bonus free tool for field screening for malnutrition.
The second edition of this convenient take-along guide a comprehensive and easily navigable resource for treating patients and studying more than 80 pediatric tropical diseases and conditions. If you're traveling to the tropics, don't leave home without this go-anywhere resource Developed by leading internation child health authorities, with contributions from morethan 40 experience practitioners, this handy atlas is the only handbook-sized text focused exclusively on pediatric tropic disease. A uniquely useful travel companion, it is formatted for efficient on-the-spot problem solving. More than 200 full-color images are located directly adjacent to concise diagnostic, treatment, and prevention guidelines. Also includes bonus tool - plus diverse quick-reference aids Handy field-screening tool to help quickly determine children's nutritional status. Highlights - Chapters and sections have been updated - Quick-access treatment guide with dosage information - Weight-for-height tables - At a glance endemicity maps
IAP Color Atlas of Pediatrics is the latest edition of this comprehensive and highly illustrated guide to paediatric care. The book is divided into 22 paediatric specialties. Within each section, topics are organised alphabetically for ease of reference. Topics covered include neonatology, growth and development, nutrition, infectious diseases, all of the major organ systems of the body, from neurology to endocrinology, genetics, allergy, adolescent health and medicine, paediatric surgery and orthopaedics. This new edition emphasises the early and rapid diagnosis of various paediatric illness, and features two new chapters; one in the growth and development section and the other in the haematology section, concerning blood component therapy. Enhanced by 1240 full colour illustrations, images and tables, this comprehensive atlas is an ideal resource for students of paediatrics and practitioners. Key Points Comprehensive and highly illustrated atlas covering all paediatric specialities Range of conditions covered in alpha order 1240 full colour images, illustrations and tables Latest edition, featuring two brand new chapters First edition (9789350257104) published 2012
Based on key content from Red Book: 2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 27th Edition, the new Red Bookr Atlas is a useful quick reference tool for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of more than 75 of the most commonly seen pediatric infectious diseases. Includes more than 500 full-color images adjacent to concise diagnostic and treatment guidelines. Essential information on each condition is presented in the precise sequence needed in the clinical setting: Clinical manifestations, Etiology, Epidemiology, Incubation period, Diagnostic tests, Treatment
Newly organized and featuring new editors and hundreds of new images, Peters' Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Seventh Edition, brings you up to date with today's greatest challenges in tropical medicine. Increased global travel, climate change, human conflict, short-term/large-scale human assemblies, potent therapeutic agents, drug resistance, and vaccine misinformation have contributed to a greatly changed landscape in this complex field. This practical, highly visual guide provides more than 1,300 stunning illustrations, making it an authoritative parasitology resource for accurate diagnosis of complex diseases. - Contains hundreds of new images, including more than 50 completely revised life cycles and epidemiological maps. - Provides current information on Zika virus, chikungunya virus, Ebola virus, SARS and MERS-CoV caused by enzootic corona virus, tuberculosis, ceftriaxone-resistant gonorrhea, malaria, and much more. - Features a completely updated and significantly streamlined text, now organized not only by primary mode of disease transmission, but extended to define disease more strictly according to the route of acquisition – a logical change that reflects the principles applied to control measures for most infections. - Presents the knowledge and expertise of new editors Drs. Laura Nabarro, Stephen Morris-Jones, and David A. J. Moore.
The new edition of this classic reference offers a problem-based approach to pediatric diseases. It encompasses almost all pediatric subspecialties and covers every pediatric disease and organ system. It includes case studies and over 750 lavish illustrations.
Using an easily accessible, highly templated format, Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 2nd Edition, provides more than 100 realistic scenarios for tropical infectious diseases. Full-color photographs and maps, a convenient question-and-answer presentation, and succinct summary boxes help you identify and understand the tropical diseases you’re likely to encounter. This up-to-date 2nd Edition is an excellent resource and study tool for infectious diseases fellows, doctors preparing for exams in tropical medicine, primary care doctors with patients who are global travelers, and global health nurses and practitioners alike. Offers realistic scenarios for encountering patients in rural, resource-poor settings, presenting cases as "unknowns," just as in a real clinic or emergency situation. Covers newly emerging diseases such as Zika virus, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), and knowlesi malaria. Features topics in migrant medicine of particular importance to clinicians in non-tropical countries, including louse-borne-relapsing fever, spinal brucellosis, and hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly. Includes "classic" tropical diseases such as African trypanosomiasis, chagas, leprosy, and yaws. Reflects the use of novel diagnostics used in resource-poor settings, as well as developing drug resistance in relevant cases. Provides a useful index and map that organize cases geographically, for a targeted approach to study. Serves as a companion to Manson's Tropical Diseases, with a reading list at the end of each case referring to the corresponding chapter in the larger text.
