Advances in Pediatrics AK Dutta, Anupam Sachdeva
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1Advances in Pediatrics
2Advances in Pediatrics
AK Dutta Director-Professor and Head of Pediatrics KSCH & LHMC, New Delhi Anupam Sachdeva Incharge of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit and Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Department of Pediatrics Centre of Child Health Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi
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4Contributors 10Preface
A plethora of literature has been published in the field of Pediatrics during the past few decades. With each passing moment our knowledge base has expanded dramatically, with the resultant emergence of various super and sub specialties. The very notion that a practicing pediatrician, and for that matter even a post graduate student, must be competent to deliver holistic care for the child patient at every juncture and in each of these ramifications of pediatrics, is a challenging prospect and highlights the need for continuing education and enhancement of one's skills. To meet these needs, we considered tracking the current trends of pediatric practice in the form of a concise book. The labors of the past few months have resulted in a unique collation of expertise, clinical application and incisive opinions on the latest in our fields. It has been our pleasure to have a host of eminent academicians and practitioners, both international and national, as a part of this endeavor, each lending their imprint into the development of a thorough and comprehensive compendium. The issues that we have addressed through “Advances in Pediatrics” reflect the health afflictions of the Indian child specifically, both urban as well as rural. Our nation suffers from perhaps one of the highest infant - and under five - mortality rates across the globe, reflecting the non availability and delivery of the neonatal health care system. In such a scenario, the importance of neonatal care assumes principal significance. In the same breath, infectious diseases are perhaps a major cause for mortality too and their management and prevention with appropriate vaccination have been the focus of attention. Our purview extends to include gastroenterology, hemato-oncology, nephrology, pediatric cardiology, emergency and respiratory diseases and neurology amongst others. The need of the hour is to be well prepared to meet the adversities that come our way as professionals. Whether we are good, better or the best, we should never let it rest, until our good is better, and our better, the best. That has been the philosophy of our book, and that is the spirit that we would encourage to inculcate in all our readers. A beginning has been made and to see a generation benefit from this vast resource would be most gratifying for us.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
AK Dutta
Anupam Sachdeva