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The Royal Children′s Hospital, Melbourne is a
leading clinical and training centre in paediatrics.
This Handbook is a highly popular, succinct guide to
managing common and serious disorders in childhood. It
is used far beyond the hospital by medical, nursing, and
allied health professionals caring for children. It
emphasizes the community–based approach to the
management of children′s problems along with clinical
management by the doctor of first contact. This new 8th
edition has been updated in line with the Hospital′s
Clinical Practice Guidelines and features clear
illustrations and diagnostic and management algorithms.
The must have management guide for all paediatric
clinicians and students With today’s busy clinician
requiring an reliable, ‘one–stop–shop’ to questions on
important paediatric conditions, who better to present
the latest edition of a popular paediatric handbook than
the team at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne,
long–regarded as the leading clinical and training
centre for Paediatric Medicine in Australia? Some of the
exciting new features of the 8th edition include: • New
chapters on sleep, continence, slow weight gain (failure
to thrive) and obesity • Extensively revised chapters on
renal conditions, pain management and immigrant health •
New topics on continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion
(pumps), cystic fibrosis, stroke and management of
illicit drug poisoning • Links to useful internet
websites are now included, indicated by a www symbol in
the text margins • A new supplementary website at
www.rchhandbook.org • Resuscitation guide and Australian
Immunisation schedule on inside covers Besides being a
clinical management guide to paediatrics, this is also
an excellent supplemental handbook for students, junior
medical staff and any medical practitioners needing a
tool to enable fast decisions at point of care. Review
of the previous edition “ This is an excellent handbook,
which is most comprehensive and easy to use. It is
highly recommended for all resident and registrar staff
in paediatric hospitals and paediatric units. “ –
Journal of Paediatric Child Health
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