Algorithms in Pediatrics Nitin K Shah, Anand S Vasudev
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Editors Anand S Vasudev DNB D Ped DCP MNAMS MICP (USA) FIAP FIMSA Senior Consultant, Pediatric Nephrologist Indraprastha Apollo and Max Hospital New Delhi, India Nitin K Shah MD DCH DNB Professor and Consultant Pediatrician PD Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre Honorary Hematoncologist BJ Wadia Hospital for Children Lions Hospital Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Foreword Pramod Jog
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Algorithms in Pediatrics / Anand S Vasudev, Nitin K Shah
First Edition: 2017
9789351521600
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fm15Foreword
Pramod Jog MD DNB FIAP
Professor of Pediatrics
DY Patil Medical College
President, Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP), 2016
Member, Standing Committee, International Pediatric Association (IPA)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Publication of any book is a process as laborious as the process of delivering a baby. Maturity (contents and the quality), weight gain (number of pages), and intact survival (final copy) all have to be carefully looked after. More so for a book with 156 chapters running in 19 sections with every chapter having at least one algorithm!
Algorithms in Pediatrics have gone through all these laborious processes and have come out as an exclusive book for pediatricians, giving instant guidelines for treatment, bringing uniformity in management, and training minds for protocolized thinking. With each protocol, the book provides concise, precise, and up-to-date information which shall help standardize care in pediatric practice.
When a practitioner is confronted with a clinical problem, he can rarely turn to a textbook for help. What he needs at that time is not a recounting of a long list of differential diagnosis, but practical guidelines as to how to arrive at a particular diagnosis and how to proceed further.
This book on algorithms intends to enable the pediatrician to recognize many disorders in a simplified manner and give practical suggestions in their management, a learning experience in a structured manner.
To put it in the words of Henry David Thoreau, “Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify”.
Practicing pediatricians are often faced with clinical problems for which they have been rather inadequately trained during their medical curriculum. Textbooks published from the medically advanced countries do not focus enough attention on the prevailing problems and circumstances in the developing countries such as India. The algorithms in this book have been formed keeping in mind the situations prevailing in India, especially the constraints under which the clinicians here have to practice. The main emphasis has been to provide clear-cut guidelines as to how to make a diagnosis on clinical grounds with minimal investigations and to choose the most rational therapy.
Although, prepared specifically to meet the needs of practicing doctors or those who intend to practice in near future, even pediatric residents would find the book extremely useful while preparing for their viva voce at the diploma or MD exams. The book covers most of those aspects which are practically never taught in the curriculum but are nevertheless expected to be known by pediatric postgraduates. It will also assist the students, house officers, and clinicians in the evaluation of common pediatric signs and symptoms in clinical practice.
With the help of history, focused examination, and minimum investigations, pediatricians in office practice can reach a working diagnosis and lay down immediate priorities in management.fm16
There is rarely a single acceptable approach to any given problem, and not all diagnoses can fit neatly into an algorithm. Even though the protocols cannot be considered all-inclusive, the goal is to facilitate a logical and efficient stepwise approach to reasonable differential diagnoses for the common clinical problems. The algorithmic format provides a rapid and concise stepwise approach to a diagnosis. Moreover, it would train the brain to approach a problem.
The explosion of knowledge in pediatrics is phenomenal and fast. If the medical advances and good clinical practice get coupled with effective advocacy, our increasing knowledge will benefit child care in our country.
I am sure that the algorithms will enhance the capabilities of pediatricians, guiding them towards optimal utilization of available investigative and therapeutic resources.
fm17Preface
It gives us immense pleasure to present to you the 1st edition of “Algorithms in Pediatrics”. Pediatrics is rapidly advancing with the growth of its subspecialties. At times, it becomes difficult for busy pediatricians, whether in practice, in teaching institutions, or pursuing their postgraduation, to read through lengthy texts of different subspecialties. Keeping this in mind, we thought of bringing forth this concise book on algorithms, which deals with common and practical topics of everyday requirements in different pediatric specialties.
The book has been designed with a practical approach in mind, with an algorithm for each topic, along with a concise text to use the algorithms. The text has been kept simple and easily comprehendible. The book can be consulted rapidly in the emergency room, wards, outpatient departments, or in busy clinics.
The book contains 19 subspecialty sections, with 8–10 chapters in each, a total of 156 chapters. This was an immense work, which could not have been possible without the help and coordination of the section editors. We are very thankful to all the section editors.
A large number of luminaries and experts in the field of pediatrics and its subspecialties have contributed their mind and might in bringing out this book. We are thankful to all these contributors.
We are also thankful to Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. for publishing this book.
We are also grateful to our respective spouses for being tolerant and supportive of us in this endeavor.
Anand S Vasudev
Nitin K Shah