Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. World Health Organization.

Description

1. xx, 378 pages : illustrations; 14 cm

Summary

1. "This pocket book is for use by doctors, senior nurses and other senior health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first referral level in developing countries. It presents up-to-date clinical guidelines which are based on a review of the available published evidence by subject experts, for both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals where basic laboratory facilities and essential drugs and inexpensive medicines are available. In some settings, these guidelines can be used in the larger health centres where a small number of sick children can be admitted for inpatient care."--Page xvii.

Alternative title

1. Hospital care for children

Subject

1. Pediatrics
2. Child care
3. Hospitals
4. Children > Hospital care
5. Pediatrics > methods
6. Child, Hospitalized
7. Developing Countries
8. Pediatrics
9. Kindergeneeskunde
10. Ziekenhuizen

Genre/Form

1. Handbook
2. Practice Guideline
3. handbooks.
4. manuals (instructional materials)
5. Handbooks and manuals.
6. Guides et manuels.

Contents

1. Triage and emergency conditions -- Diagnostic approach to the sick child -- Problems of the neonate and young infant -- cough or difficult breathing -- Diarrhoea -- Fever -- Severe malnutrition -- Children with HIV/AIDS -- Common surgical problems -- Supportive care -- Monitoring the child's progress -- Counselling and discharge from hospital -- Appendices: 1. Practical procedures -- 2. Drug dosages/regimens -- 3. Equipment size for children -- 4. Intravenous fluids -- 5. Assessing nutritional status -- 6. Job aids and charts.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.