دانلود کتاب جراحی اطفال – تشخیص و درمان

The surgical care of children is often a source of worry for medical team members due to the high stakes involved. Injury and surgical illness can result in critical con­ditions in children requiring rapid assessment and action to achieve a return to health. It is important to remember when there is a sick child, there is a sick family, and the needs of parents must be addressed. Pediatric surgery as a field is challeng­ing due to its breadth. It remains a generalized discipline in which the conditions treated span literally head to toe. It is oft repeated that children are not small adults. The surgical conditions of children are distinct from adults, and signs and symp­toms in children indicate different etiologies. A relatively small number of pediatric surgeons are concentrated in tertiary treatment centers so children with surgical disease will often present to non-pediatric specific providers.

This text is designed to assist those caring for children whether they are on a pediatric surgery team or not. It is organized by specific surgical diseases affecting children at each stage of life, as well as chapters on trauma, neoplasm, and technical procedures. Chapters organize information in outline form to enable rapid diagnosis and treatment. Chapter structure includes key points, a narrative section of addi­tional details, study questions, and further reading. Each topic is written to stand alone for rapid reference, or the text can be used as a whole for study. We editors have devoted our professional lives to improving the lives of children and hope that this work helps others help children in need.