• 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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Medicine & surgery

Part 7 - Medicine and Surgery

• Chapter 19 - Allergy and immunology
• Chapter 20 - Burns
• Chapter 21 - Cardiac conditions
• Chapter 22 - Dental conditions
• Chapter 23 - Dermatologic conditions
• Chapter 24 - Ear, nose and throat conditions
• Chapter 25 - Endocrine conditions
• Chapter 26 - Eye conditions
• Chapter 27 - Gastrointestinal conditions
• Chapter 28 - Gynaecological conditions
• Chapter 29 - Haematologic conditions and oncology
• Chapter 30 - Infectious diseases
• Chapter 31 - Metabolic conditions
• Chapter 32 - Neonatal conditions
• Chapter 33 - Neurologic conditions
• Chapter 34 - Orthopaedic conditions
• Chapter 35 - Renal conditions
• Chapter 36 - Respiratory conditions
• Chapter 37 - Rheumatologic conditions
• Chapter 38 - Surgical conditions
• Chapter 39 - Prescribing for children

ﾠ Chapter 19 - Allergy and immunology

• Mimi Tang and Joanne Smart
  • www.allergy.org.au The Australian Society of Clinical Allergy and Immunology. Contains excellent information for patients and health care professionals. Includes anaphylaxis action plans.
  • www.primaryimmune.org Immune Deficiency Foundation. Patient organisation website containing excellent handouts for primary immune deficiencies.
  • www.esid.org Eurpean Society for Immunodeficiencies. Contains a useful clinical section which details diagnostic criteria of various primary immunodeficiencies.

Chapter 20 - Burns

• Russell Taylor
  • www.sagediagram.com - Fantastic resource from Oregon Burn Center which allows users to draw on areas of partial and full thickness burns, print out diagrams, calculate burn areas and fluid resuscitation.

ﾠ Chapter 21 - Cardiac conditions

• Paul Brooks and Dan Penny
  • www.rch.org.au/cardiology/defects.cfm RCH Cardiology Website. Excellent website with pictures and parent handouts regarding the major structural abnormalities.
  • www.heartkids.org.au Parent support organisation.

Chapter 22 - Dental conditions

• Nicky Kilpatrick
  • Spencer AJ. The use of fluorides in Australia: guidelines. Australian Dental Journal 2006; 51(2): 195199.
  • www.aapd.org/pediatricinformation American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry includes links to Parent Education Brochures and Clinical Guidelines.
  • www.ada.org/public/topics/tooth_eruption.asp The American Dental Association website includes eruption charts and animations.

Chapter 23 - Dermatologic conditions

• Rod Phillips and David Orchard

  • www.dermnet.org.nz An excellent website with online courses (including pictures, investigations and management) and patient information.

Chapter 24 - Ear, nose and throat conditions

• Robert Berkowitz and Michael Marks
  • www.hearing.com.au Hearing Australia
  • www.entnet.org American Academy of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgeons. Links to websites and case scenario teaching.
  • www.tracheostomy.com Aaron's tracheostomy page. An excellent site regarding tracheostomy management, run by an American parent and nurse.

Chapter 25 - Endocrine conditions

• Margaret Zacharin, Garry Warne, Fergus Cameron and George Werther
  • www.apeg.org.au Australian Paediatric Endocrine Group includes downloadable booklets for patients.
  • www.rch.org.au/chas/pubs Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome by Garry Warne.
  • www.magicfoundation.org Major Aspects of Growth in Children, a USA-based organisation supporting families and children with conditions affecting growth.

Chapter 26 - Eye conditions

• James Elder and Peter Barnett
  • cim.ucdavis.edu/eyes/version1/eyesim.htm - A brilliant simulation program addressing eye movements and associated defects in muscles or cranial nerves.
  • www.aapos.org/ - American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and StrabismusTM. Covers information on most major topics in paediatric ophthalmology.
  • www.eyesite.ca/7modules/index_e.html - Self-directed learning modules in ophthalmology with excellent slides, from the Canadian Ophthalmological Society.
    

Chapter 27 - Gastrointestinal conditions

• George Alex and Lionel Lubitz
  • www.naspghan.org - The North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Site includes pdf factsheets for parents, online continuing medical education and publications.
  • www.aafp.org/afp/990401ap/1823.html - Excellent article from the American Academy of Family Physicians on chronic abdominal pain.
    

Chapter 28 - Gynaecological conditions

• Sonia Grover
  • www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/cpg.cfm?doc_id=5117ﾠ- Lower abdominal pain
  • www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/cpg.cfm?doc_id=5119ﾠ- Menorrhagia
  • www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/cpg.cfm?doc_id=5207ﾠ- Prepubescent gynaecology

Chapter 29 - Haematologic conditions and oncology

• John Heath and Paul Monagle
  • www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/childhoodcancers - US National Cancer Institute.
  • www.childrensoncologygroup.org - CureSearch Children's Oncology Group.
  • www.aspho.org - American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

Chapter 30 - Infectious diseases

• Nigel Curtis, Mike Starr and Joshua Wolf
  • www.health.vic.gov.au/ideas/bluebook/ Australian national information on infectious diseases and their control, from the Department of Human Services. Has detailed information on most infections.
  • www.cdc.gov The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has an enormous array of information on infectious diseases and travel medicine.

Chapter 31 - Metabolic conditions

• Avihu Boneh and George Werther
  • www.rch.org.au/nets/handbook Follow the link to Metabolic Diseases.
  • http://emedicine.com/emerg/topic768.htm Summary article of inborn

• errors of metabolism.

Chapter 32 - Neonatal conditions

• Peter McDougall and Rod Hunt
  • www.rch.org.au/nets/handbook/ - Victorian Newborn Emergency Transport Services handbook.
  • American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines. From Pediatrics 1994; 94: 558-565, Oct. (tables reproduced with permission).
  • http://www.neonatology.org/ - Excellent collection of resources including clinical teaching, links, important papers.
  • http://depts.washington.edu/nicuweb/ - From the Department of Neonatal Pediatrics, University of Washington; protocols, references and links.
    

Chapter 33 - Neurologic conditions

• Andrew Kornberg, Simon Harvey, Mark Mackay and Wirginia Maixner
  • www.rch.org.au/cep/ - Children's epilepsy program includes information about epilepsy, tests, treatments; proformas for seizure diary and management plan and links to other resources.
  • www.pedisurg.com/PtEduc/Craniosynostosis.htm - Texas Pediatric Sugical Associates - includes diagrams and discussion about surgical management.
  • www.headaches.org/education/Educational_Modules - A series of education modules provided by the US National Headache Foundation.

Chapter 34 - Orthopaedic conditions

• Kerr Graham and Peter Barnett
  • www.rch.org.au/gait - The Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Laboratory includes case studies and summaries of research undertaken.

Chapter 35 - Renal conditions

• Colin Jones
  • www.nice.org.uk - Use the search tool to reach Urinary Tract Infection
    (UTI) in Children Guideline.
  • http://kidneyatlas.org - Free online atlas of kidney disease: 5 volumes can be
    downloaded as pdf files.
  • www.paediatriconcall.com/fordoctor/pedcalc/bp.asp - A blood pressure calculator. See also RCH Clinical Practice Guidelines [Hypertension] for blood pressure centile charts as pdf files.
    

Chapter 36 - Respiratory conditions

• John Massie and Sarath Ranganathan
  • www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/cpg.cfm?doc_id=5251ﾠ- Acute asthma guideline
  • www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/asthmadevices/index.htmﾠ- Asthma devices photoboard
  • www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/ﾠ[croup, cough, pneumonia, acute airway obstruction]

Chapter 37 - Rheumatologic conditions

• Roger Allen and Jane Munro
  • www.arc.org.uk/arthinfo/emedia.asp Arthritis research campaign with link to DVD on administration of pGALS.

Chapter 38 - Surgical conditions

• John Hutson and Tom Clarnette
  • www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/cpg.cfm?doc_id=5196ﾠ- Acute scrotal swelling or pain
  • www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/cpg.cfm?doc_id=5153ﾠ- The penis and foreskin
  • www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/cpg.cfm?doc_id=5036ﾠ- Abdominal pain

Chapter 39 - Prescribing for children

• Noel Cranswick and Andrew Rechtmann
  • www.drugdoses.net - For information regarding and purchase of Frank Shann's drug doses book for your PDA.
  • www.australianprescriber.com/ - An independent journal with articles relevant to both paediatric and adult prescribing.
  • www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/mip/medicine.htm - Prescribing medicines in pregnancy.