This book will be a vital tool for all clinicians in the front line when an ill child presents with an acute illness. Experienced paediatricians postgraduate doctors primary care physicians and paediatric nurses will find this a useful refresher and it will be an invaluable primer for newly trained doctors and students or those new to the paediatric wards. Each chapter here provides an overview of each symptom and sign followed by the most likely underlying causes in an easy-to-use tabular format. Investigative techniques and guidelines follow ranging from the simple and inexpensive to the more complex as do Top Tips and Red Flag warnings to note; new to this second edition are concluding summaries of Key Points as well as an entirely new Endocrine chapter. |Paediatric Symptom and Sign Sorter Second Edition | Medicine