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Springer Pediatric Surgery A Comprehensive Textbook for Africa 2nd Edition 2020 Softbound by Emmanuel A. Ameh, Stephen W. Bickler, Kokila Lakhoo, Benedict C. Nwomeh, Dan Poenaru
The second, fully updated edition of this book applies and contextualizes up-to-date information on pediatric surgery for low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The book is organized in general anatomic and thematic sections within pediatric surgery, such as urology, oncology, orthopedics and gastroenterology and includes chapters addressing the unique challenges and approaches for pediatric surgery in low-resource settings. Each chapter has dual authorship LMIC author providing context-specific insights and authors from high-income countries (HICs) contributing experience from well-resourced settings.Written in a reader-friendly format, this book has a uniform structure in each chapter, with introduction, demographics, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentations, investigations, management, outcome, prevention, ethics, evidence-based surgery and references. This comprehensive volume fills the gap between up-to-date pediatric surgical scholarship and knowledge developed and applied in HICs, and the practical needs of practitioners in low-resource settings. This is an indispensable guide for postgraduate surgical trainees in Africa and other LMICs as well as general surgeons practicing in Africa and other LMICs, who need to care surgically for children. 1. Paediatric surgery specialty and its relevance to Africa.- 2. Neonatal physiology and transport.- 3. Respiratory physiology and support.- 4. Cardiovascular physiology and support.- 5. Fluids and electrolyte therapy in the paediatric patient.- 6. Nutritional support.- 7. Haemoglobinopathies.- 8. Wound healing.- 9. Vascular access in children.- 10. Anaesthesia and perioperative care.- 11. Pain management.- 12. Intensive care.- 13. Ethics of paediatric surgery in Africa.- 14. Psychological issues in paediatric surgery.- .- 15. Common bacterial infections in children.- 16. Surgical site infection.- 17. Surgical complications of typhoid fever.- 18. Tuberculosis.- 19. Pyomyositis.- 20. Omphalitits.- 21. Necrotizing fasciitis.- 22. Haematogenous osteomyelitis and septic arthritis.- 23. Parasitic infestation of surgical importance in children.- 24. HIV/AIDS and the paediatric surgeon.- .- 25. Paediatric trauma: epidemiology, prevention and control.- 26. Paediatric trauma scoring and trauma registry.- 27. Initial assessment and resuscitiation of the trauma patient.- 28. Thoracic trauma.- 29. Abdominal trauma.- 30. Craniocerebral and spinal trauma.- 31. Urogenital and perineal trauma.- 32. Musculoskeletal trauma.- 33. Burns.- 34. Injuries from child abuse.- 35. Birth injuries.- .- 36. Neck: cysts, sinuses and fistulas.- 37. Lymphadenopathy in African children.- 38. Sternomastoid tumour in infancy.- 39. Salivery gland diseases in children and adolescents.- 40. Thyroid and parathyroid glands.- .- 41. Laryngoscopy, bronchoscopy and oesophagoscopy.- 42. Paediatric upper airway obstruction.- 43. Tracheomalacia.- 44. Congenital cystic lung lessions.- 45. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia and diaphragmatic eventration.- 46. Pleural effusion and empyema.- 47. Lung abscess.- 48. Oesophageal atresia.- 49. Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.- 50. Achalasia.- 51. Corrosive ingestion and oesophageal replacement.- 52. Aerodigestive foreign bodies in children.- 53. Chest wall deformities.- 54. Mediastinal masses.- 55. chylothorax.- .- 56. Congenital anterior abdominal wall defects: exomphalos and gastroschisis.- 57. Disorders of the umbilicus.- 58. Inguinal and femoral hernias and hydroceles.- .- 59. Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.- 60. Peptic ulcer disease.- 61. Neonatal intestinal obstruction.- 62. Duodenal atresias and stenosis.- 63. Intestinal atresias and stenosis.- 64. Vitelline duct anomalies.- 65. Intestinal malrotation and midgut volvulus.- 66. Gastrointestinal duplications.- 67. Meconium ileus.- 68. Intussusception.- 69. Miscellaneous causes of intestinal obstruction.- 70. Necrotizing enterocolitis.- 71. Short bowel syndrome.- 72. Gastrointestinal stomas.- .- 73. Colonic atresias.- 74. Appendicitis.- 75. Inflammatory bowel disease.- 76. Hirschsprung’s disease and allied malformations.- 77. Anorectal malformation.- 78. Polyps.- 79. Other anorectal conditions.- .- 80. Obstructive jaundice.- 81. Biliary atresia.- 82. Choledochal cyst.- 83. Cholelithiasis (gallstones).- 84. Annular pancreas.- 85. Pancreatitis.- 86. Spleen.- 87. Portal hypertension.- .- 88. Cystic diseases of the kidney.- 89. Congenital ureteropelvic junction stenosis.- 90. Ureteric duplications and ureterocoeles.- 91. Vesicoureteric reflux.- 92. Bladder exstrophy and epispadias.-