Pediatric Emergencies category: 29 books
Medical Response to Child Sexual Abuse
A Resource for Professionals Working with Children and Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
440 pages, 603 images, with 31 contributors Medical Response to Child Sexual Abuse: A Resource for Professionals Working with Children and Families features a completely pediatric focus as a part of the Sexual Assault line and adds an illustrative multimedia component. This text builds on the academic...
Walk on Water
The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004
Described by one surgeon as “soul-crushing, diamond-making stress,” surgery on congenital heart defects is arguably the most difficult of all surgical specialties. Drawing back the hospital curtain for a unique and captivating look at the extraordinary skill and dangerous politics of critical...
by Alberto Edefonti, Giovanni Montini, Marina Picca
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Il Manuale di Nefrologia Pediatrica costituisce, nel suo campo, il primo esempio, in Italia, di un testo a carattere clinico e pratico, mirato a dare risposta ai più comuni problemi nefro-urologici che il Pediatra di Famiglia, il Pediatra Ospedaliero e gli Specializzandi in Pediatria si trovano...
by Megan Grandinetti
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A Preemie Parent's Survival Guide to the NICU details the journey of Megan Grandinetti and her husband during their NICU stay with their daughter Sofie. Sofie was born prematurely at 26 weeks and stayed for a tumultuous 5 months in the hospital. Megan gives new parents of Preemies pieces of advice...
Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment 4e, Volume 3
Cultures at Risk and Roles of Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
798 pages, 466 images, with 44 contributors Volume three of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of topics ranging from the risks of the Internet, family abduction, the legal and forensic aspects of child maltreatment cases, and the roles of physicians, nurses, social workers, and...
Child Abuse Pocket Atlas, Volume 1
Skin Injuries
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
198 pages, 601 images, 9 contributors Skin injuries are among the most common, and, certainly, the most visible, symptoms of physical abuse in children. Because professionals working with children will, at times, encounter such injuries, it is vital they be able to recognize abusive burns, bruises,...
Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment 4e, Volume 1
Physical Abuse and Neglect
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
600 pages, 1177 images, with 32 contributors The first volume in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of the signs and effects of physical abuse and neglect toward children. The clinical text includes essential information for professionals who work to identify,...
Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment 4e, Volume 2
Sexual Abuse and Psychological Maltreatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
456 pages, 350 images, with 36 contributors Volume two in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment series provides an overview of the signs and effects of sexual abuse and psychological maltreatment toward children. The clinical text includes new and revised content on topics that are...
Child Abuse Pocket Atlas, Volume 3
Head Injuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
258 pages, 606 images, 28 contributors Of the injuries inflicted on physically abused children, head injuries are, in many cases, among the most damaging and potentially lethal. First responders and medical practitioners encountering children with head injuries may need to take quick and decisive...
Early Arrival
9 Things Parents Need to Know About Life in the ICU Nursery A Doctor's Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
No parent wants to be in the intensive care nursery. It’s a frightening, often overwhelming place full of alarms, machines, doctors, and nurses—and, most terrifying of all, full of tiny babies fighting to survive. Parents who had planned to welcome their child home are faced with seeing that child...
Rest Uneasy
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Tracing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives....
Child Sexual Abuse
Entry-Level Training for the Mandated Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
24 pages, 4 images, 6 tables Child Sexual Abuse: Entry-Level Training for the Mandated Reporter is designed with these goals in mind: to understand, effectively respond to, and assist in the prevention of child sexual abuse, however it manifests. It is the author’s and the publisher’s sincerest...
Tomi's Time
In Love and Loss--and Rebirth from Bacterial Meningitis
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Tomi's Time chronicles the unthinkable happening to a baby after he contracted bacterial meningitis at nine months of age--and then survived the advanced states of this devastating brain infection.
Such an outcome for our previously healthy son was as remote to us as any star in space....
Child Abuse Pocket Atlas, Volume 2
Sexual Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
212 pages, 445 images, 11 contributors Sexual abuse of children is an especially delicate matter, and each reported case should be treated with exacting care. Accurate identification and appropriate response to symptoms of sexual maltreatment in children is essential to the resilient, long-term recovery...