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Kyle is a 7-month-old boy who presents to the emergency department (ED) of a district general hospital in a coma. He has been somewhat lethargic in the past few days, has vomited several times and has gradually gotten worse. His parents could not rouse him and brought him straight to the ED. There is no past medical history of note, and no diseases run in the family. You have been asked to assess him...100 Cases in Paediatrics presents 100 scenarios commonly seen in children by medical students and junior doctors in hospital and community settings. A succinct summary of the patient's history, examination and any initial investigations is followed by questions on the diagnosis and management of each case. The answer includes a detailed discussion on each topic, providing an essential revision aid as well as a practical guide for students and resident doctors.Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action to take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a doctor. These true-to-life cases will teach students and residents to recognise important medical conditions in children and to develop their diagnostic and management skills.Key Features: Succinct case studies are presented in an easy-to-read format, including patient history, examination and investigations. Questions at the end of each case prompt readers to consider their options for diagnosis, investigation and management. Answer pages then guide readers through the clinician's sequence of thoughts and actions. Illustrations, information boxes and key points summaries reinforce learning, ideal during exam revision. A broad range of common paediatric conditions is included, from acute abdominal pain to urinary tract infection, together with more unusual examples and cases covering the neonate, child and adolescent.

Kyle is a 7-month-old boy who presents to the emergency department (ED) of a district general hospital in a coma. He has been somewhat lethargic in the past few days, has vomited several times and has gradually gotten worse. His parents could not rouse him and brought him straight to the ED. There is no past medical history of note, and no diseases run in the family. You have been asked to assess him...100 Cases in Paediatrics presents 100 scenarios commonly seen in children by medical students and junior doctors in hospital and community settings. A succinct summary of the patient's history, examination and any initial investigations is followed by questions on the diagnosis and management of each case. The answer includes a detailed discussion on each topic, providing an essential revision aid as well as a practical guide for students and resident doctors.Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action to take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a doctor. These true-to-life cases will teach students and residents to recognise important medical conditions in children and to develop their diagnostic and management skills.Key Features: Succinct case studies are presented in an easy-to-read format, including patient history, examination and investigations. Questions at the end of each case prompt readers to consider their options for diagnosis, investigation and management. Answer pages then guide readers through the clinician's sequence of thoughts and actions. Illustrations, information boxes and key points summaries reinforce learning, ideal during exam revision. A broad range of common paediatric conditions is included, from acute abdominal pain to urinary tract infection, together with more unusual examples and cases covering the neonate, child and adolescent.

Kyle is a 7-month-old boy who presents to the emergency department (ED) of a district general hospital in a coma. He has been somewhat lethargic in the past few days, has vomited several times and has gradually gotten worse. His parents could not rouse him and brought him straight to the ED. There is no past medical history of note, and no diseases run in the family. You have been asked to assess him...100 Cases in Paediatrics presents 100 scenarios commonly seen in children by medical students and junior doctors in hospital and community settings. A succinct summary of the patient’s history, examination and any initial investigations is followed by questions on the diagnosis and management of each case. The answer includes a detailed discussion on each topic, providing an essential revision aid as well as a practical guide for students and resident doctors.Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action to take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a doctor. These true-to-life cases will teach students and residents to recognise important medical conditions in children and to develop their diagnostic and management skills.Key Features:Succinct case studies are presented in an easy-to-read format, including patient history, examination and investigations.Questions at the end of each case prompt readers to consider their options for diagnosis, investigation and management.Answer pages then guide readers through the clinician’s sequence of thoughts and actions.Illustrations, information boxes and key points summaries reinforce learning, ideal during exam revision.A broad range of common paediatric conditions is included, from acute abdominal pain to urinary tract infection, together with more unusual examples and cases covering the neonate, child and adolescent.

Kyle is a 7-month-old boy who presents to the emergency department (ED) of a district general hospital in a coma. He has been somewhat lethargic in the past few days, has vomited several times and has gradually gotten worse. His parents could not rouse him and brought him straight to the ED. There is no past medical history of note, and no diseases run in the family. You have been asked to assess him...100 Cases in Paediatrics presents 100 scenarios commonly seen in children by medical students and junior doctors in hospital and community settings. A succinct summary of the patient’s history, examination and any initial investigations is followed by questions on the diagnosis and management of each case. The answer includes a detailed discussion on each topic, providing an essential revision aid as well as a practical guide for students and resident doctors.Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action to take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a doctor. These true-to-life cases will teach students and residents to recognise important medical conditions in children and to develop their diagnostic and management skills.Key Features:Succinct case studies are presented in an easy-to-read format, including patient history, examination and investigations.Questions at the end of each case prompt readers to consider their options for diagnosis, investigation and management.Answer pages then guide readers through the clinician’s sequence of thoughts and actions.Illustrations, information boxes and key points summaries reinforce learning, ideal during exam revision.A broad range of common paediatric conditions is included, from acute abdominal pain to urinary tract infection, together with more unusual examples and cases covering the neonate, child and adolescent.

This book, based on case studies in the healthcare sector, reveals a working strategy that explores a well-kept secret of top management: that a more balanced gender distribution on the boards of healthcare organizations results in an improvement of the organization’s overall performance. Organizational success for healthcare institutions depends in part on insuring that an organization’s management team possesses and reflects key characteristics that can predict that success. By further linking these characteristics to gender, the research suggests that it is reasonable to assume that an increased if not dominant presence of females on boards will lead to improved performance.In this evolving world environment of an aging population coupled with funding constraints that are applied to healthcare organizations based on performance, healthcare organizations’ top management and researchers will find this book a must read. A new perspective emerges as a practical solution for the healthcare organization’s survival.

In this book the authors explore the influence of gender on organizational performance in the health care sector. They argue that gender diversity of boards improves health care organizational performance when compared to homogeneous boards. The theoretical framework used was developed from conducting literature reviews of scholarly academic journal articles on gender, boards, and organizational performance as well as performing an in depth study of the performance of health care organizations in Ontario, Canada. Research results suggest that effective boards and their composition were dependent on their female to male ratio to realize administrative efficiencies. Publicly funded, nonprofit, 126 acute care hospitals located in Ontario, Canada, were chosen as the health care sector for this research. Limitations of this study are in the complexity of the health care industry, competing internal and external priorities, and funding constraints. Nevertheless, this book is original work and relevant for use by boards to examine the complementary mix of gender as a predictor of organizational performance.