Paediatric Clinical Examination Made Easy

By Denis Gill and Niall O'Brien

This book provides a concise, humorous, and carefully written and illustrated guide to paediatric clinical skills, including the skill of history taking from the child at various ages and from the parents, as well as examination of the body systems. The style is appealing and easy to read, and contains advice and tips based on the authors' years of experience and study.Divided into short, manageable chaptersUseful illustrations and tablesAll terms are clearly definedLinks examination technique to clinical examplesIncludes terms and mnemonics section and clinical checklist. New illustrations and page design
. New material on the acutely ill child and the terrified toddler
. New information on syndrome recognition

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044310395X
• ISBN13: 9780443103957
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

practical

if you are planning to spend some time on paediatric ward I recommend this pocket-sized book,its quite useful.It includes thorough examination of the child with some important additions

Paediatric clinical examination

The "Paediatric Clinical Examination" is now in its fourth edition, and rightly so, because it is helpful to all working in pediatrics. Professor Denis Gill and consultant paediatrician Niall O'Brian from Children's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, have done a wonderful job with this small and handy pocketsize book for students, residents and others working with children. The book has 11 chapters with introduction to pediatrics, a "form of veterinary medicine", history taking, approaching children, examination at different ages, systems examination, pediatrics as the "measuring doctor", hydration and nutrition, developmental assessment at different ages, the art of examining excreta, using your senses and finally pediatric tips and topics with sound advice. The book is full of wonderful illustrations, funny and profound advice with quotations, like the words of Sir Dominic Corrigan (1853)" "The trouble with many doctors is not that they do not know enough but that they do not see enough" or the advice to teach thy tongue to say" "I do not know" (Rabbi Moses Maimonides or Rambam, 1135-1204). All in all a very handy book for the student, the resident or other professional working with children. I had a lot of fun reading it.Professor Joav Merrick, MDDirector, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel, email: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net