First published in 1964, this book has evolved into its present format as a renowned practical and accessible guide for pediatricians, physicians, residents, and nurses involved in pediatric medicine. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach, covering serious child-specific conditions and common clinical situations, and clearly explains good management techniques and treatment of sick children. Key Selling Features: contributions from leading specialists at The Children's Hospital at Westmead; new chapters on obesity and rheumatology; chapter summaries, checklists, and bulleted lists; updated growth charts and medication dosage guidelines; thumb tabs and a two-color internal design for improved readability; and handy pocket size and moisture-proof cover.

Paediatrics Manual The Children's Hospital at Westmead Handbook, 2nd Edition

Medical Books

Wood, Nicholas

Isaacs, David

Kilham, Henry

Alexander, Shirley

Medicine

McGraw-Hill Education / Australia

A Practical Approach to Pediatric Infections is a highly practical book, written by European, Australian and North American specialists, and aimed at all trainees and doctors seeing children with infections. The book deals with pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of all common childhood infections, taking a symptom-based approach.

Practical Approach to Pediatric Infections

Elsevier Science Health Science

Evidence-Based Neonatal Infections is expertly written by David Isaacs, an experienced author renowned for his knowledge in both pediatric infections and evidence-based medicine. It critically analyses the evidence for decision making in neonatal infections. Evidence-Based Neonatal Infections * The first evidence-based text on neonatal infections * Provides practical guidance where evidence is poor * Complements David Isaacs’ Evidence-Based Pediatric Infectious Diseases (9781405148580) Practical and evidence-based, Evidence-Based Neonatal Infections is designed to help the clinician with day-to-day decisions on the care of newborn babies with possible, probable or proven infections. It considers clinical questions relevant to neonatologists, analysing the evidence carefully and providing recommendations for optimum management of neonatal infectious diseases, whilst reflecting on: <ul>
<li>Efficacy and safety</li> <li>Antibiotic resistance</li> <li>Cost effectiveness</li> <li>Adverse effects</li> <li>Ethical considerations</li> </ul>
Evidence-Based Neonatal Infections provides a unique reference for neonatologists, pediatricians, trainees, specialist nurses; general practitioners, microbiologists, infection control doctors, and all staff in neonatal units.

Evidence-Based Neonatal Infections

Wiley/Blackwell

The signs of neonatal sepsis are often subtle: they may by poorly localized and not specifically indicative of infection, so may therefore be mimicked by many non-infectious conditions. Untreated sepsis results in rapid deterioration which is often irreversible. When sepsis is suspected, therefore, the rule in neonatal medicine is to treat early, with or without the benefits of ancillary laboratory tests, and before the results of cultures are available. This appropriate but empirical approach to the management of suspected sepsis generates many problems. The neonatologist has to decide whether invasive investigations, such as lumbar puncture and suprapubic aspiration of urine, should be performed on all babies before starting antibiotics; which babies should be treated, and the relative importance of laboratory and clinical criteria in deciding who to treat; whether to prescribe antibiotics according to a general antiobotic policy or based on the circumstantial evidence provided by surveillance cultures; and how long to continue antibiotics if subsequent cultures are negative. Because antibiotics are frequently prescribed in neonatal units, often for long periods, selection of organisms resistant to one or many antibiotics is a perennial problem. The incidence of fungal infections is increasing, particularly in infants of low birth-weight. The intensive care environment and the extreme susceptibility of the babies who are relatively immunocompromised and justifiably subjected to invasive procedures make hospital-acquired infections a major consideration. The neonatologist may be consulted by obstetric colleagues about the timing of preterm delivery, the relative importance of infection and prematurity in preterm prolonged rupture of the membranes and the possible benefits of giving antibiotics to the mother to prevent neonatal infection. This book is not intended as a comprehensive reference work on neonatal infections. There are medical textbooks in which specific problems with infection are dealt with in an exhaustive manner. The intention in this work is to offer the personal view of the of the authors of the principles and thinking behind the management of neonatal infections, caused by bacteria, viruses and fungi, both in terms of individual babies and in the wider context of all babies in the newborn nursery.

Neonatal Infections

Moxon, E. Richard

Butterworth-Heinemann

Character Building: A Guide for Parents and Teachers (English and Spanish Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Four Courts Pr Ltd

In this book, author David Isaacs, an educationalist and parent, offers ideas and suggestions on how parents and teachers can help children's all-round development. The emphasis is on character building, approached from the viewpoint of moral habits. Professor Isaacs takes twenty-four virtues and discusses how the child - at different ages - can be encouraged to be obedient, industrious, sincere, prudent, generous, optimistic, sociable, and so on. There is no book on child development quite like this.

Character building: A guide for parents and teachers

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Four Courts Press

Evidence-based Pediatric Infectious Diseases is a practical guide to the diagnosis and management of childhood infections in clinical practice. Renowned Clinical Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, David Isaacs, and an expert consultant editor team, bring you the first book to critically look at the evidence for decision making in pediatric infections. Based around illustrative case studies, each chapter presents and analyzes current evidence on the management of different pediatric infections and provides firm treatment recommendations based on evidence of: • efficacy and safety • antibiotic resistance • cost • adverse effects • ethical considerations. Clear summaries and specific guidance allow you to assess the evidence for yourself and make rapid but informed management decisions based on the strength of evidence available. Antibiotic doses are presented clearly and simply, enabling you to select appropriate treatment at a glance. This book uses a case-based approach that focuses on the most common disease areas affecting children in industrialized countries, developing countries, travelers and refugees. It is an up-to-date, relevant and widely applicable text that carefully examines the evidence for antibiotics and other interventions whilst encouraging a conservative and responsible approach to antibiotic use. Evidence-based Pediatric Infectious Diseases is an indispensable resource for any practitioner who strives to provide the best evidence-based care for childhood infections.

Evidence-based Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

BMJ Books

The compelling story of vaccination. We may fear terrorist attacks, but in truth humans have always had far more to fear from infections. In 1919, Spanish flu killed over 50 million people, more than died in both world wars combined. In 1950, an estimated 50 million people caught smallpox worldwide, of whom 10 million died. In 1980, before measles vaccine was widely used, an estimated 2.6 million children died of measles every year. Today we are hostage to a new pandemic disease -the seemingly unstoppable COVID-19. Less than 100 years ago, losing a child to an infection like diphtheria or polio was a dreaded but almost inevitable sorrow faced by all parents, from the richest to the poorest. Today, these killer diseases are almost never seen in industrialised countries, thanks to the development of vaccines. Immunisation has given modern parents peace of mind their ancestors could not imagine. The history of vaccination is rich with trial, error, sabotage and success. It encompasses the tragedy of lives lost, the drama of competition and discovery, the culpability of botched testing, and the triumph of effective, lifelong immunity. Yet with the eradication in the first world of some of humanity's deadliest foes, complacency in some quarters has set in. COVID-19 has us again racing for a vaccine. The story of past achievements and failures helps us keep the race - and the hope - in perspective. This is a book for everyone who wants to understand our past - and cares about our future. PRAISE 'Anyone who has doubts about the life-saving miracle of vaccination should read this' Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald 'An entertaining and engaging work that is sure to delight general readers' Australian Book Review 'The ideal handbook for pregnant women, parents, travellers, childcare and aged-care workers, GPs and anyone with an interest in public health' The Australian 'Isaacs explores the understanding of immunity as it develops from the fifth century BC to the present day and thrills us with the progressive successes of each of the 14 vaccines which a child routinely receives today ... The work is authoritative, beguiling, amusing, instructive and inspirational. It deserves a wide readership, including infectious disease experts, other health professionals and, most assuredly, a diversity of lay people' Sir Gustav Nossal, immunologist and director of The Walter and Eliza Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, 1965-1996 'A rollicking story of human endeavour, error, misinformation, success and failure ... and more than a glimpse of why we need to continue to research, evaluate, educate and fund vaccines to prevent disease' Fiona Stanley, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Western Australia 'Effortlessly accessible, Defeating the Ministers of Death brilliantly reveals the people behind the most important public health intervention in history' Professor Andrew J Pollard, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford 'This book is an unflinching look at the triumphs and inevitable tragedies in the war against infectious diseases. Nonfiction is at its best when it reads like fiction. And David Isaacs has written a page turner' Paul A. Offit, MD, author of Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information

Defeating the Ministers of Death: The compelling story of vaccination, one of medicine's greatest triumphs

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Harpercollins

THE STORY BRIDGE HELPS A COMMUNITY (ORGANIZATION, CORPORATION) MOVE FROM BEING A COLLECTION OF ALIENATED INDIVIDUALS TO A COHESIVE FORCE FOR COMMITTED ACTION. THROUGH THIS GROUP PROCESS, PEOPLE MOVE FROM A FOCUS ON "I" TO A FOCUS ON "WE." THEY ARE DRAWN BY THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE PERSONAL STORIES, AND HEAR THE SAME FROM NEIGHBORS AND COLLEAGUES. THROUGH THE FUN AND THE WORK OF SHARING STORIES, STRANGERS BECOME FAMILY. ATTACHMENT, RELATIONSHIP, AND COMMITMENT GROW BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO CROSS THE BRIDGE TOGETHER TO A NEW VISION OF THEIR PLACE.

Story Bridge: From Alienation to Community Action

Arts & Photography

Geer, Richard Owen

Corriere, Jules

Block, Melissa

Brown, Juanita

Performing Arts

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Essential Classical Guitar Scale Book can be used by all guitarists no matter where you are on your path to mastering the instrument. For the teacher and student, this book is essential because it is a complete and codified scale system that can be used to learn proper finger placement, coordination, music theory, practice techniques, and a general knowledge of the guitar fretboard. In addition to the traditional 2 and 3 octave scales, modes, whole tone, and diminished scales are covered. Useful practice schedules for mastery are also included. Work on theory, sight reading, tone, synchronization, speed, legato and more while keeping scale practice fresh.

The Essential Classical Guitar Scale Book

Nigro, Michael Anthony

Music

Mel Bay Publications,Inc.

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