Managing the Critically Ill Child

A practical, user-friendly guide to the management of sick children, written by experienced paediatric emergency physicians and anaesthetists.

Preface; Part I. The District General Hospital Setting: 1. Setting up a department for managing a sick child Adrian P. Jennings and Julian Berlet; 2. Team approach and organisation Richard Skone; 3. Equipment Fiona Reynolds; 4. Stabilisation of the critically ill child Mary Montgomery; Part II. Clinical Conditions: 5. The child with sepsis Matthew D. Christopherson and Paul Baines; 6. The child with cardiac disease John Smith; 7. The child with shortness of breath Brian Shields and Benjamin Stanhope; 8. The child with asthma Josephine Langton and Stuart Hartshorn; 9. The child with decreased consciousness and coma Mark D. Lyttle; 10. The child with seizures Katie Z. Wright and Kathleen Berry; 11. The child with diabetic ketoacidosis Ian Jenkins; 12. Inherited metabolic conditions Saikat Santra; 13. Paediatric toxicology Marius Holmes; 14. The child with anaphylaxis Nick Sargant; 15. The child with stridor Ed Carver and Tim Day-Thompson; 16. The difficult paediatric airway Oliver Masters and Alistair Cranston; 17. The surgical abdomen Suren Arul; 18. Paediatric trauma Karl Thies; 19. The child with raised intra-cranial pressure Phil Hyde; 20. The child with burns Sapna Verma and Manu Sundaram; 21. Blood product administration in children Oliver Bagshaw; 22. The sick neonate presenting with shock Fiona Reynolds; Part III. What Could You be Expected to do in a District General Hospital: 23. Ongoing management of the successful arrest Barney Scholefield; 24. Referring team led transfers Andrew J. Baldock and Gareth D. Jones; 25. Anaesthetising for a surgical emergency Andy Tatman; 26. Managing children on an adult critical care unit Helga Becker; 27. Pain management in children Ursula Dickson; 28. Children with complex needs and disability Kate Skone and Ian Wacogne; 29. When a child dies Fiona Reynolds; 30. Child protection Kate Skone and Geoff Debelle; Part IV. The Children's Hospital Setting: 31. Ventilation J. Nick Pratap; 32. Fluid therapy Adrian Plunkett; 33. Pharmacology in children Isaac Rhian; 34. Neonates Richard Skone; Part V. Golden Rules: 35. Quick reference for emergencies Kash Jamalapuram; 36. Drug infusions Kash Jamalapuram; 37. Top tips for practical procedures Steven Cray; 38. UK vaccination schedule Richard Skone; 39. Common syndromes in the critically ill child Oliver Bagshaw; Index.