Main description:

The long awaited second edition of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Course (PEMC) manual is here. A veritable atlas of resuscitation, it has the largest number of photographs taken before, during and after resuscitation. It explains how the pediatric assessment triangle has been modified to help take therapeutic decisions. Current evidence-based guidelines have been incorporated such that safer and more effective treatments are employed during resuscitation.

In-depth explanations of underlying mechanisms of disease and pathophysiology are given. These help the reader to understand in a 'back to basics' way what is going on in a patient and help make differential diagnoses. There is also considerable detail and up to date information on key drugs, emergency treatments and essential equipment. For the first time evidence from patients has been used to teach how to save a life in the initial minutes. This book teaches that the best resource in the successful resuscitation of seriously ill children is yourself.

Key features include:

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Course (PEMC) manual helps you understand why the child has become seriously ill.
It shows you how you could pick up those early subtle signs of danger.
It shows you how you too can learn the skills to put yourself those vital minutes ahead in the race against death and neurological handicap.
It teaches you the 'Pearls and Pitfalls' of all the common interventions in the care of the acutely ill child.
It highlights the current state of the art evidence supporting many of the interventions during active resuscitation.
For the first time, you will be taught a unique 'step by step approach' to save a child's life using real life case scenarios.
For the first time, in this subspecialty, you will have a 'never before' experience with brilliant pictures of real time resuscitation.

Contents:

Section I Recognition of Critical Illness

1. Recognition of Early Signs of Critical Illness in the Out Patient Department

Section II Airway

2. Basic Airway Management

3. Pharmacologically Assisted Intubation (PAI) in the PED

4. Assessment and Management of the Difficult Airway

5. Flow Inflating Ventilation Device: Non-invasive CPAP in Settings Without Immediate Access to Mechanical Ventilation

Section III Approach to Stridor

6. Stridor

Section IV Breathing

7. Approach to Respiratory Distress

8. Management of an Asthmatic Exacerbation

9. Pulse Oximeter

Section V Circulation

10. General Approach to the Management of Shock

11. Intraosseous Access

12. Vasoactive Drugs in the ED

13. Approach to Acute Diarrhea and Shock in the ED

14. Cardiogenic Shock

15. Septic Shock

16. Approach to Recognition and Management of Dengue in the ED

17. Anaphylaxis

18. Cyanotic Spell

19. Hypertensive Emergencies

Section VI Disability

20. Approach to Decreased Level of Consciousness

21. Status Epilepticus

Section VII Envenomation

22. Scorpion Sting

23. Snake Bite Envenomation

Section VIII Poisoning

24. Poisoning: General Approach

25. Specific Poisons

Section IX Trauma

26. Approach to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

27. Approach to Polytrauma

Section X Environmental Injury

28. Burns

29. Electrical Injury

30. Submersion Injury

Section XI Special Topics

31. Gastrointestinal Bleeding

32. Interpretation of Chest X-rays in Critically Ill Children

33. Procedural Sedation and Management of Pain in Children

34. Diabetic Ketoacidosis

35. Setting up Pediatric Resuscitation and Emergency Services

Section XII Procedures

36. Nebulizer Therapy

37. Needle Thoracocentesis and Thoracostomy

38. Pericardiocentesis

39. Cannulation of External Jugular Vein

40. Foley Catheter Insertion

41. Spinal Stabilization

Appendices

Appendices

Epilogue

Index