| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART I: Gastroenterology; CHAPTER 1: The infant with abdominal pain; Investigations; Management; CHAPTER 2: The child with abdominal pain; History; Investigations; Causes; Well child; Febrile child; The ill child; Surgical causes; Gynaecological causes; Obstetric causes; Drugs/toxins; Referred pain; Rare causes; Management; Functional abdominal pain; Gallstones; Liver abscess; Liver trauma; Further reading; Key web links; CHAPTER 3: The infant with vomiting; Important features from history; Causes; Neonate; Older infant |
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Screening investigations (see Algorithm 3.1)Management of gastro-oesophageal reflux; Medication; Allied health professional; Patient education; Surgery; The neurodisabled infant; Outcome; Further reading; Key web links; CHAPTER 4: The child with vomiting; Important features from history; Differential diagnosis; Investigations; Management of cyclical vomiting; Further reading; Key web links; CHAPTER 5: Difficulty swallowing; Causes; Investigations (Algorithm 5.1); Management; Ingested foreign bodies; Infant feeding disorder; Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EE); Achalasia; Further reading |
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Key web linksCHAPTER 6: Abdominal distension; Important features from history; Differential diagnosis; Investigations; Management of bacterial overgrowth (see Chapter 46); Key web link; CHAPTER 7: The infant with acute diarrhoea; Causes; Management; Fluid management; Medication; Prevention; Key web link; CHAPTER 8: The child with acute diarrhoea; Important features from history; Clinical course; Causes; Assessment; Fluid management; Fluid management; Medication; Other therapies; Key web link; CHAPTER 9: The infant with chronic diarrhoea; Important features from history |
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Differential diagnosis (see Algorithm 9.1)Toddler diarrhoea; Investigations; Treatment; Outcome; Protein-losing enteropathy; Causes; Investigations; Management; Outcome; Investigations (screening tests in bold); Management; CHAPTER 10: The child with chronic diarrhoea; Important features from history; Differential diagnosis; Investigations; Management; Crohn's disease (see Algorithm 10.1); Ulcerative colitis; Inflammatory bowel disease specialist nurses; Patient education; Key web links; CHAPTER 11: Gastrointestinal bleeding; Causes (see Table 11.1); Investigations (see Algorithm 11.1) |
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Management of upper GI bleedingKey web links; CHAPTER 12: Food-associated symptoms; Assessment (see Table 12.1); Important features from history; Investigations; Outcome; Coeliac disease; Clinical features; Coeliac serology; Management; Follow-up; Outcome; Further reading; Key web links; CHAPTER 13: Abdominal mass; Important features from history and examination; Differential diagnosis and investigations; Distension without mass; Right upper quadrant; Right lower quadrant; Left upper quadrant; Renal masses; Subrapubic; Any site; Management; Further reading; Key web links |
| Summary |
Practical, handy and succinct, this full colour pocketbook provides clear-cut clinical guidance to the main symptoms that infants and children commonly present with in both primary and secondary care. Clearly divided into specific sections covering the GI tract, liver and nutrition, Professor Kelly and her team discuss how best to investigate and manage specific clinical problems such as vomiting, abdominal pain, acute diarrhoea, constipation and jaundice using a highly clinical problem-orientated approach. They cover the management of important clinical problems su |
| Notes |
CHAPTER 14: The infant with constipation |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pediatric gastroenterology -- Diagnosis.
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Liver -- Diseases.
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Children -- Nutrition.
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Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
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MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
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Children -- Nutrition
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Liver -- Diseases
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Pediatric gastroenterology -- Diagnosis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bremner, Ronald
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Hartley, Jane
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Flynn, Diana
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| ISBN |
9781118778661 |
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1118778669 |
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