Essential Paediatric Surgery

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Martin Corbally is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Chief of Staff at the Royal Medical Services - King Hamad University Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain. An Ainsworth scholar, he has completed training in Paediatric Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC., Liver transplantation at Kings College Hospital, London and is a former Senior Registrar at Great Ormond St. Hospital and Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin, Dublin. He is the Professor and Head of the Dept of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons Medical University of Bahrain. He has a major interest in surgical education, global paediatric surgery and is founder and programme director of Operation Childlife- an Irish registered global charity.

Paul Losty has served as Professor of Paediatric Surgery at Alder Hey Children's Hospital Liverpool one of the largest Children's Hospitals in the UK and Europe. Professor Losty trained in General Surgery and Paediatric Surgery in the major university teaching hospitals affiliated with the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) in Ireland, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, USA and Alder Hey Children's Hospital Liverpool. Working as a university academic surgeon at the University of Liverpool for almost 30 years Professor Losty delivered clinical and faculty leadership in academic paediatric surgery. He has major interests in surgical research, education & teaching, mentorship & leadership and has helped train generations of young paediatric surgeons in the clinic, operating room and science laboratory. Professor Losty is now currently serving as a Distinguished & Visiting Professor of Surgery at Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University Bangkok Thailand and is a volunteer surgeon with Operation Child Life an Irish global charitable organisation - providing surgical health care to low and middle income world countries.

Zusammenfassung

With this timely practical textbook encompassing the full range of clinical conditions within paediatric surgery, surgeons-in-training will be delighted to discover that the book offers them a concise outline of paediatric surgical practice, thus ensuring that they are wholly familiar with a wide range of clinical scenarios.

Key topics are included within sections on neonatal surgical conditions, surgical disorders of infancy, surgical conditions in childhood and adolescence, head and neck, hepatobiliary and pancreatic disorders, preparation of the child for surgery, malignant disorders, urology, neurosurgery and trauma. Short chapters complemented by clinical photography, schematic figures and tables splendidly enable the reader to understand key concepts with confidence.

Author-experts throughout the world have generously contributed to this textbook, ensuring that the contents reflect 'real world' practice. A wide range of readers, notably surgeons-in-training, members of the paediatric surgery care team including nursing staff, postgraduates seeking core knowledge of paediatric surgery for board examinations, and surgeons planning to specialise in paediatric surgery, will benefit greatly from this practical guide.

Inhalt

Preface

Editor biography(s)

Contributing authorship(s)

I Want to be a Paediatric Surgeon

Neonatal Surgery

1) Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia & Eventration Of The Diaphragm

2) Oesophageal Atresia and Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula & Congenital Oesophageal Disorders

3) Neonatal Mediastinal Mass Lesions

4) Neonatal Pulmonary Barotrauma - Surgical Aspects

5) Congenital Lung Malformations

6) Exomphalos And Gastroschisis

7) Intestinal Atresia: Duodenal-Jejunal-Ileal-Colonic Disorders

8) Malrotation And Heterotaxy Disorders

9) Hirschsprung Disease

10) Anorectal Malformations

11) Meconium Ileus

12) Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

13) Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC)

14) Intestinal Failure

15) Neonatal Abdominal Masses

16) Cardiac Surgery

17) Fetal Surgery

Surgical Disorders Of Infancy

18) Inguinal Hernia & Hydrocoele

19) Umbilical Hernia, Epigastric Hernia and Allied Conditions

20) Vitello-Intestinal Duct Disorders

21) Undescended Testes

22) Intussusception

23) Intestinal Foreign Bodies and Corrosive Oesophagitis

24) Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux

25) Necrotizing Pneumonia

Surgical Conditions In Childhood & Adolescence

26) Acute and Recurrent Abdominal Pain of Childhood

27) Disorders Of the Spleen

28) Inflammatory Bowel Disease

29) Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Polyps in Children

30) Constipation And Faecal Incontinence

31) Chest Wall deformities

32) Acute Disorders of the Ovary

33) Acute Scrotum

34) Disorders of the Breast

35) Ectopic Pregnancy

36) Sexually Transmitted Infection(s)

Head And Neck

37) Thyroid

38) Branchial Cleft, Branchial Fistula and Sternal Cleft Lesions

39) Lymphadenopathy

40) Airway Disorders & Subglottic Stenosis

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disorders

41) Biliary Atresia

42) Choledochal Malformation

43) Cholelithiasis

44) Congenital Hyperinsulinism (CHI)

Preparation of The Child for Surgery

45) Physiology - ABC - Fluid and Electrolyte Balance in Pediatric Surgical Patients

46) Nutritional Support

47) Special Anaesthetic Considerations for the Surgical Patient with Allied Medical Disorders

48) Consent

49) Patient Safety and WHO Surgery Check List(s)

50) Ethical Challenges of the Extremely Preterm Neonate

51) Ethics & Conjoined Twins

Malignant Disorders

52) Abdominal Solid Tumours

53) Neoplasms Of the Ovary and Testes

54) Head And Neck Malignancy

55) Chest And Mediastinal Tumours

56) Sacrococcygeal Teratoma

57) Lymphoma(s)

58) Skin And Naevi

59) Vascular And Lymphatic Disorders

60) Endocrine Tumours

61) Vascular Access

62) Infections And the Paediatric Cancer Patient

Urology

63) Antenatal Hydroureteronephrosis : Posterior Urethral Valves And Prenatal Urinary Tract Dilatation

64) Pelvi-Ureteric Junction Obstruction

65) Enuresis

66) Neuropathic Bladder

67) Hypospadias

68) Bladder Extrophy And Variants

69) Preputial Disorders - Phimosis, BXO and Circumcision

70) Vesico-Ureteric Reflux

71) Abnormalities Of The Vagina In Childhood

72) Disorders Of Sexual Development

Neurosurgery

73) Spina Bifida And Neural Tube Defects

74) Hydrocephalus And Raised Intracranial Pressure

75) Central Nervous System - Miscellaneous Lesions

Trauma

76) APLS and ATLS - Essential Principles Of Care

77) Foreign Body Aspiration

78) Chest Trauma

79) Abdomen And Pelvic Trauma

80) Pediatric Extremity Injury

81) Munchausen By Proxy, Non-Accidental Injury And Child Abuse

82) Burns & Bites

Index