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Pediatrics at a Glance
Ref: RudolfLevine
This popular title in the at a Glance series is structured into seven sections that reflect the full range of pediatrics and the real life presentation of children. With new material on childhood obesity, allergy and living with chronic illness, Pediatrics at a Glance reflects the changing face of modern paediatrics.
Price: £21.99 / €24.19
£25.84 / €28.42 Including VAT at 17.5%
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Learning Problems & Disabilities
Ref: ADELMAN
Price: £43.50 / €47.85
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Nelson Textbook of Paediatrics - 17th Edition
Ref: BEHRMAN2
For over 60 years practitioners have relied on 'Nelson Textbook of Paediatrics'. It is the complete authority on the etiology, epidemiology, pathology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and prognosis for virtually every disorder found in children aged 0-10 years.
The 17th Edition has been completely revised and updated to include sections on * allergic disorders * the upper respiratory tract * the lower respiratory tract * neoplastic diseases and tumors * diabetes mellitus in children * neuromuscular disorders * and the ear.
There are expanded discussions of behaviour and developmental disorders, including ADHD and autism.
Increased coverage of genetics.
New chapters on biological and chemial terrorism * obesity * and herbal remedies.
Fresh perspectives from a wealth of new contributors.
Also available: 'Essential Textbook of Paediatrics', which extracts the salient and essential elements of this most comprehensive text.
Price: £87.99 / €96.79
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Nelson's Essential Paediatrics
Ref: BEHRMAN
This book is a concise version of the larger 'Textbook of Paediatrics'; it focuses on what the medical student needs to know during the core paediatric clerkship. It achieves this by addressing the essential aspects of paediatric health and illness within the special educational needs of the medical student and starting house officer.
The 3rd edition of this text is due for publication in October 2005
Price: £38.99 / €42.89
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CD-ROM of Nelson's Textbook of Paediatrics
Ref: BEHRMAN-CD
CD to accompany the hardback 'Textbook of Paediatrics'.
Buy the book and the CD together as a package at a preferential price!
Price: £95.00 / €104.50
£111.63 / €122.79 Including VAT at 17.5%
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Paediatrics - Primary Care Approach
Ref: BERKOVITZ3
Carol D. Berkowitz, Associate Chairman and Program Director, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles.
This useful and practical overview of paediatrics offers three important features: a concise format, an emphasis on health rather than disease, and a strong primary care focus essential for the medical students preparing for pediatric rotations, paediatric and family medicine residents and a review for practitioners.
KEY FEATURES:
** Divided into three main sections...Section 1 covers the essentials of primary and preventive care...Section 2 presents the most common signs and symptoms in children...Section 3 discusses the health care needs and long-term management of children with the most frequently encountered chronic conditions.
** Each chapter begins with a case history, followed by a brief list of questions.
Price: £36.99 / €40.69
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Physical Therapy for Children
Ref: CAMPBELL1
This highly successful text is used as both a core textbook in Physiotherapy programmes and as a clinical reference. The text is evidence based and has numerous illustrations. The third edition provides even more help to students, instructors and clinicians via additional features in the text, such as more case studies, more coherent organisation, revised chapters with additional information and 2 new chapters.
FEATURES;
* CD ROM featuring video clips illustrating case histories and concepts in the text
Price: £46.99 / €51.69
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Paediatric Occupational Therapy
Ref: CASE-SMITH
Price: £49.99 / €54.99
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Paediatric Pain Handbook
Ref: DESHPANDE
Jayant K. Deshpande, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville, TN, USA
A practical, clinical guide of pediatric pain management and sedation. It contains eight chapters, including basic aspects of pediatric pain and sedation, postoperative pain management, epidural and spinal anesthesia and analgesia, regional nerve blocks and interpleural analgesia, pain associated with medical illnesses, neonatal pain management, sedation in the pediatric intensive care unit, and sedation for imaging and invasive procedures.
THE PEDIATRIC PAIN HANDBOOK is ideal for anesthesiologists, pediatricians, pediatric nurses, and pain specialists.
Pages: 387 Illustrations: 33
Price: £38.99 / €42.89
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Exacta Paediatrica
Ref: ENTWISTLE
** ON SPECIAL OFFER **
Ian Reid Entwistle, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside, UK
This popular pocketbook contains a wealth of information in the form of tables and easy reference material which cover the information every branch of the medical and nursing professions may need to refer to in the course of their everyday work.
KEY FEATURES:
* Tables and other reference tools organise information so it is fast and easy to access. * Portable pocket size format.
* Spiral binding means book can lie flat. * Laminated wipe clean binding.
** USUAL PRICE £12.99 **
Price: £7.50 / €8.25
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Paediatrics: An Illustrated Colour Text
Ref: FIELD2
This book takes an innovative approach while also providing core coverage for hard-pressed medical and other health science students. Topics are arranged in symptom-based two page learning units featuring:
An introductory section covers the basics of paediatric examination and normal development. A second section offers topics in social, preventative and developmental paediatrics. Acute paediatrics is covered in the third section and includes topics such as the blue baby at birth. This symptom-based approach is ideal for the needs of students in today's changing medical curriculum.
Price: £23.99 / €26.39
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Handling the Young Child with Cerebral Palsy
Ref: FINNIE
Nancie R Finnie, formerly Superintendent Physiotherapist, Department of Paediatrics, Charing Cross Hospital, London
In order to help the young cerebral palsied child toward maximum independence and a fuller life, it is essential that parents and carers should know how to handle their child and have a clear understanding of the reasons for the child's difficulties. No two children with cerebral palsy have the same problems and this book deals with those commonly met, and the various ways in which they can be modified working with everyday activities. The long awaited new edition of this popular text has been completely revised and expanded to include new information for parents. Since the first edition was published, ideas on appropriate therapies have changed and developed, new concepts underpinning therapeutic intervention have evolved.
Price: £26.99 / €29.69
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Recognition of Child Abuse for the Mandated Reporter
Ref: GIARDINO
Completely updated, this widely acclaimed practical text helps professionals fulfill their legal and ethical responsibility to report child abuse with a high level of confidence, effectiveness, and gratification. The book also serves as a textbook for students in medicine, nursing, social services and law enforcement who are preparing for work with children.
Published March 2002 in Hardback
Price: £33.99 / €37.39
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Children Adapt
Ref: GILFOYLE
'Children Adapt' provides a developmental approach to pediatric rehabilitation and a theoretical framework for the evaluation and treatment of children.
This extensive revision of the successful first edition now includes stated learning objectives, self study questions and identification of key points, allowing the book to be used more effectively as a student textbook as well as a practitioner's reference. New material has been added to reflect the most up-to-date trends in the field of pediatric development, creating an innovative, insightful learning tool.
KEY FEATURES:
An overview of the rudiments of theory building. - New material discussing application of theory to paediatric rehabilitation. - Explicit discussions of occupational performance skills - A comprehensive glossary of terms.
Price: £29.95 / €32.95
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Paediatric Clinical Examination Made Easy
Ref: GILL/OBRIEN
Children are different. Paediatrics is much more than medicine miniaturised.
Price: £19.99 / €21.99
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Paediatric Clinical Skills
Ref: GOLDBLOOM
R B Goldbloom, Professor of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Gathering a detailed history and making an effective physical examination are the most valuable skills in paediatric practice. This book presents clear, step-by-step instruction, system by system, on the examination of infants, children and adolescents. The contributors emphasise the approach to the child as a whole and the text is full of useful tips on how to get the most from history taking and physical examination, what questions to ask, what to glean from simply watching the child, the order in which to undertake the clinicial examination. For undergraduates and trainees the book provides a companion to clinical training, and for the practicing doctor it provides a guide to honing clinical skills.
Price: £50.99 / €56.09
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How Children Fail
Ref: HOLT
Price: £8.99 / €9.89
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Essential Paediatrics
Ref: HULL
Now in its fourth edition, this highly regarded textbook carries on the tradition of previous editions in presenting core information about paediatrics in a clearly written style, well illustrated with over 500 line drawings and photographs, carefully integrated to enhance and support the text.
The editors, David Hull and Derek Johnston, have evaluated and reviewed the entire text in detail for this new edition. A completely new section on metabolism, and major changes have been made to many of the existing chapters, including a new section on immune deficiency disorders, the latest information on molecular genetic techniques, and the most recent guidelines on the management of asthma. In addition, six new contributors have been added to the experienced multi-author team of paediatric specialists, and there has been an active concern to widen the perspective of the book across hospital and community settings.
Price: £30.99 / €34.09
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Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics
Ref: LISSAUER
Tom Lissauer, MD, St. Mary's Hospital, London.
A completely new textbook which aims to provide students with the facts they need to know in a format that facilitates learning and understanding. This helps to deal with the time pressure facing today's medical students whilst meeting the need to be fully informed in this complex specialty.
This is the best illustrated paediatrics textbook available, with over 600 full colour and illustrations. The text follows a problem based approach to diagnosis, focusing on presenting signs and symptoms as well as describing disease management. Information is presented succinctly and is clarified by tables and graphs. Complex concepts are illustrated with artworks and other graphics. Key points are highlighted. Case histories are included to explain diagnostic or management problems.
Pages: 352 Illustrations: 627
Price: £34.99 / €38.49
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Handbook of Paediatric Physical Therapy
Ref: LONG2
This is a succinct yet comprehensive reference on the specialty area of paediatric physical therapy, covering the breadth of paediatric physical therapy in one accessible source. It provides all of the essential information needed by the student physical therapist, the generalist, and the novice pediatric physical therapist to assess or evaluate a child, design and implement a treatment plan, and determine when assis-tance from a more experienced pediatric physical therapist or other team member is needed.
The Handbook is divided into six major chapters headings; areas covered include Growth, Development and Measurement as well as the interpretation of standardised tests.
Price: £26.00 / €28.60
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Downs Syndrome Handbook
Ref: NEWTON
Combining expert knowledge with sympathetic common sense, this completely updated comprehensive handbook offers help and advice to all parents and carers of children with Down's syndrome, and shows them how to help their children flourish and reach their full potential. Written in conjunction with the Down's Syndrome Association, parents are offered a fill range of up-to-date information and practical advice on a wide variety of issues:
* Current medical knowledge about the condition.
* Advice on the care of babies and young children.
* Education and training.
* Emotional and sexual development.
* Integration into society
Dr Richard Newton is Director of Clinical Services at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. He has a son with Down's Syndrome.
Price: £9.99 / €10.99
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Paediatic Sports Medicine
Ref: NUDEL
** ON SPECIAL OFFER **
This book edited by the Director of Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, cover all aspects of children and sport. A wide range of specialists have contributed chapters, from the adaptation of skeletal muscle to exercise training and cardiovascular physiology during exercise, to exercise, nutrition and fat control and exercise and sports for the handicapped child.
The chapters are illustrated by tables and diagrams and a number of black and white X-Ray photographs.
** USUAL PRICE £51.50 **
Price: £35.00 / €38.50
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Oski's Essential Paediatrics
Ref: OSKI/JOHNSON
This book bridges the gap between medical school training and the clinical reality of clerkship. This book synthesizes important material from the authoritative text decribing the common clinical situations that the student is likely to encounter in pediatric clerkship. From diagnosis to treatment this book delivers useful information in an easy to use format.
Price: £27.00 / €29.70
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Motor Assessment of Development in Infants
Ref: PIPER
Martha Piper and Johanna Darrah
Findings supporting the benefit of early treatment of central nervous dysfunction have made the assessment of motor control problems of infants essential. This book presents current theories of infant motor development and discusses the challenges involved in the assessment of the motor skills of developing infants as compared to that of adults. Provides step-by-step instruction for using the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) - a new scale that measures infant motor development.
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Theories of motor development. Motor assessment of the developing Infant. Alberta Infant Motor Scale: Construction of a motor assessment tool for the developing Infant. Administration guidelines. Prone,. supine, sit and stand subscales. Clinical uses of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale. Psychometric properties of the AIMS. Norm-referencing of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale.
Price: £46.99 / €51.69
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Paediatric Secrets
Ref: POLIN
Richard Polin, MD, and Mark Ditmar, MD
Thoroughly updated and expanded, this new edition contains answers, tips, and secrets from the experts on a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic problems that pediatricians face. This book provides both the right question and its answer to help students, residents, and practitioners hone their skills for practice and board exams.
Pages: 550
Price: £29.99 / €32.99
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Physiotherapy in Paediatrics
Ref: SHEPHERD
Roberta Shepherd, Foundation Professor of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney.
Extensively revised and updated the new edition of this text continues to provide an essential introduction to paediatric physiotherapy. With increased research findings the physiotherapy for disabled individuals is changing from a neurophysiologic or neurodevelopmental therapeutic approach to a movement science based approach.
This book now includes new chapters on the development of movement and skill; training motor control and optimizing motor learning; maturational pathophysiological and recovery processes in the CNS.
All remaining chapters have been updated to include the clinical relevance of recent scientific developments. The references and additional reading lists have been expanded to guide the student of paediatric physiotherapy towards useful further reading.
The 3rd edition is a guide to paediatric physiotherapy for the student and practitioner physiotherapist.
Price: £41.99 / €46.19
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From Birth to Five Years
Ref: SHERIDAN
Mary D. Sheridan
A guide to children's development progress based on the pioneering work of Mary Sheridan, this book has become a classic text for students in many fields and is also widely recognized by professionals as an excellent source of reference. The book clearly sets out each stage of development in young children.
KEY FEATURES:
* Over 120 illustrations.
* Age appropriate checks for hearing and vision.
* Advice on when to refer a child for specialist attention.
* Index of support services available to children and families with special needs.
Price: £9.99 / €10.99
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Tender Touch
Ref: STAERKER
** ON SPECIAL OFFER **
Informative, practical and easy to follow, this hands-on guide to baby massage explores age-old therapies to create exciting vistas for bonding and parenthood.
In 'Tender Touch', Dr Paul Staerker explains:
The sustaining gift of touch that determines your baby's future. The effects of touch on a child's emotional development. The nervous system and its touch connection. How to calm a screaming baby. Treating growing-up problems with simple massage. The Acupressure points to treat specific conditions. Using massage to enhance your baby's general health and well-being.
** USUAL PRICE £9.99 **
Price: £5.50 / €6.05
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Paediatric Orthopaedic Secrets
Ref: STAHELI
Price: £29.99 / €32.99
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Cerebral Palsy
Ref: STANTON
Price: £10.99 / €12.09
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Diagnosis in Colour: Paediatrics
Ref: TAYLOR4
Price: £28.99 / €31.89
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Paediatric Physical Therapy
Ref: TECKLIN
Jan Stephen Tecklin
Organized by disability and disease, then by specialty areas of practice, this text helps you build the skills you need for current practice in the physical rehabilitation of children. This book addresses neurological disorders, cardiopulmonary disorders, problems of the high-risk neonate, developmental testing, physical therapy in the schools, sports-related injuries in adolescents, and more.
Noted experts in clinical care in pediatric physical therapy share evidence based insights to help you deliver the best possible care.
NEW TO THIS EDITION: Case Studies link theory to clinical practice and provide valuable opportunities for problem solving.
Price: £38.00 / €41.80
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Resource Guide to Childhood Disabilities
Ref: WALLACE
The book has been organised into six parts. Part One introduces the population in need and the growing and evolving effect of chronic illness and disability on children, their families, and the communities in which they live. It then describes the development of public programs for these children and mechanisms for financing their health care. Part Two addresses the future directions of services and programs for children with disabilities and chronic illness and their families. Part Three describes issues of particular importance to children with special needs and their families as they seek to live normal and productive lives in their own communities.
The more important services needed by children with special needs and their families are addressed in Part Four.
Price: £51.99 / €57.19
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Atlas of Paediatric Physical Diagnosis - 4th Ed
Ref: ZITELLI/HOLLY
Basil J. Zitelli & Holly W. Davis, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Thouroughly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this practical reference presents superbly illustrated guidance on the visual diagnosis of hundreds of common and important paediatric disorders. Accompanying text emphasises pertinent historical factors, examination techniques, visual findings and diagnostic methods rather than therapy.
Price: £94.00 / €103.40
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