The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

Table of Contents 8th Edition.

Part 1 - Emergencies

• Chapter 1 - Medical Emergencies
  • James Tibballs and Ed Oakley
• Chapter 2 - Poisoning and envenomation
  • James Tibballs

Part 2 - Procedures and Pain Management

• Chapter 3 - Procedures
  • Georgia Paxton and Peter Barnett
• Chapter 4 - Pain management
  • George Chalkiadis, Greta Palmer and Jane Munro

Part 3 - Fluids and Nutrition

• Chapter 5 - Fluid and electrolyte therapy
  • Julian Kelly and Trevor Duke
• Chapter 6 - Nutrition
  • Julie Bines, Kay Gibbons and Michele Meehan
• Chapter 7 - Slow weight gain
  • Michael Harari
• Chapter 8 - Obesity
  • Kay Gibbons, Zoë McCallum and Matthew Sabin

Part 4 - Child Public Health

• Chapter 9 - Immunisation
  • Jenny Royle and Jim Buttery
• Chapter 10 - Immigrant child health 
  • Georgia Paxton and Jim Buttery

Part 5 - Development

• Chapter 11 - Common behavioural and developmental problems
  • Daryl Efron and Sheena Reilly
• Chapter 12 - Sleep problems
  • Margot Davey
• Chapter 13 - Constipation and continence
  • Susie Gibb and Michael Harari
• Chapter 14 - Developmental delay and disability
  • Catherine Marraffa and Dinah Reddihough
• Chapter 15 - Adolescent health
  • Susan Sawyer

Part 6 - Psychosocial Problems

• Chapter 16 - Child psychiatry
  • Maria McCarthy and Chidambaram Prakash
• Chapter 17 - Child abuse
  • Anne Smith and Chris Sanderson
• Chapter 18 - The death of a child
  • Peter McDougall, Jenny Hynson and Mary O’Toole

Part 7 - Medicine and Surgery

• Chapter 19 - Allergy and immunology
  • Mimi Tang and Joanne Smart
• Chapter 20 - Burns
  • Russell Taylor
• Chapter 21 - Cardiac conditions
  • Paul Brooks and Dan Penny
• Chapter 22 - Dental conditions
  • Nicky Kilpatrick
• Chapter 23 - Dermatologic conditions
  • Rod Phillips and David Orchard
• Chapter 24 - Ear, nose and throat conditions
  • Robert Berkowitz and Michael Marks
• Chapter 25 - Endocrine conditions
  • Margaret Zacharin, Garry Warne, Fergus Cameron and George Werther
• Chapter 26 - Eye conditions
  • James Elder and Peter Barnett
• Chapter 27 - Gastrointestinal conditions 
  • George Alex and Lionel Lubitz
• Chapter 28 - Gynaecological conditions
  • Sonia Grover
• Chapter 29 - Haematologic conditions and oncology
  • John Heath and Paul Monagle
• Chapter 30 - Infectious diseases
  • Nigel Curtis, Mike Starr and Joshua Wolf
• Chapter 31 - Metabolic conditions
  • Avihu Boneh and George Werther
• Chapter 32 - Neonatal conditions
  • Peter McDougall and Rod Hunt
• Chapter 33 - Neurologic conditions
  • Andrew Kornberg, Simon Harvey, Mark Mackay and Wirginia Maixner
• Chapter 34 - Orthopaedic conditions
  • Kerr Graham and Peter Barnett
• Chapter 35 - Renal conditions
  • Colin Jones
• Chapter 36 - Respiratory conditions
  • John Massie and Sarath Ranganathan
• Chapter 37 Rheumatologic conditions 
  • Roger Allen and Jane Munro
• Chapter 38 - Surgical conditions
  • John Hutson and Tom Clarnette
• Chapter 39 - Prescribing for children 
  • Noel Cranswick and Andrew Rechtmann

Appendices