Short description:

This book addresses the problems faced by clinicians when practicing in areas where medical resources are stretched over wide geographical areas. It illustrates the basics of paediatric surgery thus enabling clinicians to make basic management plans and communicate effectively with local teams.

Long description:

Paediatric surgeons who practice in areas where medical resources are stretched over wide geographical areas face a number of challenges. This resource provides an easy and useful guide to help readers understand the essentials of paediatric surgery. Using the authors? own experiences, the text illustrates the different management practices required when dealing with paediatric patients in rural and remote settings.

The most frequently encountered fetal, infant and paediatric conditions are reviewed, together with coverage of trauma, burns, urology, thoracic surgery, emergency abdominal surgery, minimally invasive paediatric surgery and problems with external genitalia.

This book is intended to be a practical guide for clinicians to the common and important problems seen in paediatric surgery, enabling them to make clinical management plans and ensure effective communication with local teams.

Table of Contents:

1. The Tropics, 2. The Tyranny of Distance, 3. Transport Considerations, 4. Fetal Medicine, 5. The Neonatal Surgical Patient, 6. The Infant as a Paediatric Surgical Patient, 7. General Surgery in Childhood, 8. Managing Trauma in Tropical Queensland, 9. Paediatric Burns, 10. Paediatric Urology, 11. Thoracic Surgery in Children, 12. Emergency Abdominal Surgery in Children, 13. Problems with the External Genitalia, 14. Minimally Invasive Paediatric Surgery, 15. Volunteering in Developing Countries in the Tropics, 16. Common Problems in Remote and Rural Paediatric Surgical Practice