Publisher's Synopsis
This text aims to provide complete coverage of paediatric medicine, and is made up of the following five sections: general paediatrics; the foetus and newborn; ambulatory paediatrics; the sick or hospitalized patient; and the paediatrician's companion - important things you forgot to remember.;This edition has new chapters on high risk pregnancy, maternal adaptions to pregnancy, ethical issues in the newborn intensive care unit, sepsis and septic shock, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, food allergies, lead poisoning, and the molecular basis of diagnosis and roseola.
