Paediatric Surgery : Clinical Practice in Remote and Rural Settings, and in Tropical Regions

Paediatric surgeons who practice in areas where medical resources are stretched over wide geographical areas face a number of challenges. This resource provides an easy and useful guide to help readers understand the essentials of paediatric surgery. Using the authors’ own experiences, the text illustrates the different management practices required when dealing with paediatric patients in rural and remote settings. The most frequently encountered fetal, infant and paediatric conditions are reviewed, together with coverage of trauma, burns, urology, thoracic surgery, emergency abdominal surgery, minimally invasive paediatric surgery, and problems with external genitalia. A practical guide for clinicians to the common and important problems seen in paediatric surgery, enabling them to make clinical management plans and ensure effective communication with local teams. Paediatric surgeons who practice in areas where medical resources are stretched over wide geographical areas face a number of challenges. This resource provides an easy and useful guide to help readers understand the essentials of paediatric surgery. Using the authors'own experiences, the text illustrates the different management practices required when dealing with paediatric patients in rural and remote settings. The most frequently encountered fetal, infant and paediatric conditions are reviewed, together with coverage of trauma, burns, urology, thoracic surgery, emergency abdominal surgery, minimally invasive paediatric surgery and problems with external genitalia. This book is intended to be a practical guide for clinicians to the common and important problems seen in paediatric surgery, enabling them to make clinical management plans and ensure effective communication with local teams. "Paediatric Surgery will support practitioners in managing patients with a wide variety of paediatric surgery conditions. It addresses the problems faced when practicing in areas where medical resources are stretched over wide geographical areas. It provides an easy and useful resource to help readers understand the basics of paediatric surgery. Using the authors' own experiences, Paediatric Surgery will illustrate the different management practices required when dealing with patients in rural and remote settings. This book will guide clinicians as to the common and important problems seen in paediatric surgery to enable them to make basic management plans and assist in communication with local teams"--Publisher. Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Editors Contributors 1. The Tropics 2. The Tyranny of Distance 3. Transport Considerations 4. Fetal Medicine 5. The Neonatal Surgical Patient 6. The Infant as a Paediatric Surgical Patient 7. General Surgery in Childhood 8. Managing Trauma in Tropical Queensland 9. Paediatric Burns 10. Paediatric Urology: A Simplified Approach to Dealing with Urinary Tract Dilatation 11. Thoracic Surgery in Children 12. Emergency Abdominal Surgery in Children 13. Problems with the External Genitalia 14. Minimally Invasive Paediatric Surgery 15. Global Health Interventions in Paediatric Surgery 16. Common Problems in Remote and Rural Paediatric Surgical Practice Index