Pearls and Tricks in Pediatric Surgery [Paperback]

Providing core information on pediatric surgery, this book serves as a supplement to standard pediatric surgical textbooks. It offers pearls of wisdom that will help those who participate in pediatric surgical care, as well as to provide state-of-the-art insights based on physiological principles, literature reviews, and clinical experience.

This book is an ideal tool to help readers prepare for questions they will be asked on ward rounds, in the OR, or in oral exams. The depth of exploration is intended for medical students, residents in pediatrics and pediatric surgery, pediatric surgical trainees, pediatric nurse practitioners, primary care pediatricians, and family practitioners.

 

Foreword.- Preface.- Chapter 1. Evaluation of the pediatric surgical patient.- Chapter 2. Nutrition, fluids and electrolytes for the pediatric surgical patient.- Chapter 3. Chest wall deformities.- Chapter 4. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia.- Chapter 5. Esophageal atresia with or without tracheoesophageal fistula.- Chapter 6. Gastroesophageal reflux disease.- Chapter 7. Caustic Ingestion of the esophagus.- Chapter 8. Esophageal foreign bodies.- Chapter 9. Congenital lung lesions.- Chapter 10. Acquired lung and pleural disease.

Professor Martin Lacher is Surgeon-in-Chief and Director of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Leipzig. After his surgical residency at the University of Munich he successfully completed a Fellowship in Pediatric Endosurgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.  His research activities which focus on neonatal and adolescent inflammatory bowel diseases and new techniques in minimally invasive surgery are regularly funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Prof. Martin Lacher also serves as a reviewer for a variety of surgical peer-reviewed journals and is Editl#