• About Paediatric Handbook
• Table of contents
• Part 1 - Emergencies
• Part 2 - Procedures & Pain Management
• Part 3 - Fluids & Nutrition
• Part 4 - Child Public Health
• Part 5 - Development
• Part 6 - Psychosocial Problems
• Part 7 - Medicine and Surgery
• Appendices
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Paediatric Handbook 8th Edition

The must have management guide for all paediatric clinicians and students

We are delighted to announce that the 8th edition of the Royal Children's Hospital Paediatric Handbook is now available in all good medical bookshops (including the RCH Child Health and Safety Resource Centre). It can also be purchased on-line from John-Wiley & Sons.

All chapters have been extensively revised and updated by staff of the Royal Children's Hospital (Contributors to the 8th Edition).

• The Handbook continues to provide a comprehensive practical guide to the management of health problems in infants, children and adolescents (Table of Contents)
• The Handbook compliments and extends information in the greatly valued RCH Clinical Practice Guidelines
• For the first time there is both a Print and PDA version. 
• The PDA version is available for purchase in Skyscape format and can be used on many different PDA platforms.

Editors

• Kate Thomson
• Dean Tey

Associate Editor

• Michael Marks

Editorial Committee

• Daryl Efron
• Michael Marks
• Jane Munro
• Georgia Paxton
• Christine Sanderson
• Mike South

New topics include:

1. sleep
2. continence
3. slow weight gain
4. obesity
5. continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion pumps
6. cystic fibrosis
7. illicit drug poisoning

Practitioners will particularly appreciate up-to-date guidelines regarding rescussitation and the Australian immunisation schedule

The Handbook Online

• New to the 8th edition, each chapter provides useful web references and links to assist the reader to get further and in depth knowledge.
• These web references and links are marked with the "@" symbol and are listed in a box at the end of each chapter.
• The Handbook Online acts as a supplement to the handbook to bring together the web references and links. Other links will be added with time to keep the reader up-to-date.
• The Handbook Online is not online version of the handbook.

UPDATES/CORRECTIONS to the 8th Edition

Please let us know if links don't work, or if you would like to suggest links to add. To provide feedback, or suggestions for the online supplement, please email me.

Michael Marks
Associate Editor

*Once again Prof Shann has kindly allowed us to reproduce his invaluable Paediatric Drug Doses in the Print version. As there is already a terrific version of Drug Doses for the PDA (www.drugdoses.net). Therefore, the PDA version of the Handbook will not include the pharmacopoeia.

Disclaimer:

Links to external websites contained within these pages are provided as a service to readers, but do not imply an endorsement of their content. The authors of the handbook, and editor of these webpages do not provide any guarantee of the accuracy of information contained in external sites. If you are concerned about the content or appropriateness of links, please contact the associate editor.

Acknowledgements

The editors particularly wish to thank Nick Mansfield, aged 10, Ascot Vale Primary School for his design and artwork for the Handbook cover.