Volume 197 - Issue 4
Managing acutely ill children
Author: Amy C Plint
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (4): 247. || doi: 10.5694/mja12.10551
Published online: 20 August 2012
Published online: 20 August 2012
OVER 4 million children present each year to emergency departments (EDs) across Australia for acute medical care. This represents, on average, one visit per year per child. The appropriate management of these acutely ill and injured children requires specific expertise and, as a result, paediatric emergency medicine has increasingly become an important area of subspecialty training.Most children, however, will present to general EDs for their care ...
Textbook of paediatric emergency medicine, 2nd ed.
Peter Cameron, George Jelinek, Ian Everitt, Gary J Browne, Jeremy Raftos, editors. Sydney: Churchill Livingstone, 2011 (xiii + 613 pp, $94.95). ISBN 9780702033681.
OVER 4 million children present each year to emergency departments (EDs) across Australia for acute medical care. This represents, on average, one visit per year per child. The appropriate management of these acutely ill and injured children requires specific expertise and, as a result, paediatric emergency medicine has increasingly become an important area of subspecialty training.
Most children, however, will present to general EDs for their care and, for many clinicians, a truly seriously ill child will be a rare presentation in their ED. For these clinicians in particular, easily accessible, accurate information and guidance is essential.
This textbook is well positioned to assist clinicians who see few children in their daily practice as well as those who treat large volumes of paediatric patients. Compiled by editors and authors from across Australia, many of whom are clinicians with active practices in paediatric emergency medicine, the book is an easy-to-use, clinically relevant, up-to-date and easily accessible resource.
It provides comprehensive coverage of both the common and the more rare, but important, paediatric problems that may present to the ED. During a busy shift in the ED, this book, with its overall systems approach and list of “essentials” preceding each well organised chapter, would provide valuable, key information to all levels of clinicians.
This edition has been updated to include recent relevant research, new guidelines (including resuscitation guideline changes), and an expanded section on adolescent medicine. It is highly recommended and is a worthwhile addition to the field of paediatric emergency medicine.