Main description:

This compact handbook provides orthopedic surgeons in training with concise and relevant core knowledge on all aspects of children’s’ orthopedics. Content includes the common orthopedic conditions that affect children and includes highlighted key facts. These conditions are seen and examined on in examinations. "Red flags" are also emphasised, including the key management points of potentially serious conditions. This handbook would also be useful to pediatricians and family doctors working in busy clinics that need a quick reference guide and with highlighted "red flags" of serious conditions will not be missed.

It is not aimed at replacing large multi volume textbooks on pediatric orthopedics. This handbook would be a pocket sized book with concise text with multiple illustrations. Key aspects of the topic will be highlighted within a box and in addition, any important "red flag" symptoms or signs that are critical to alert the reader would also be highlighted. A concise list of references to the topic would be at the end of each chapter. These references will enable the reader to rapidly obtain an up to date list of the relevant literature. Other similar books are either predominantly text based or picture based. This book combines the two to produce a new style hand book with important features readily identified in highlighted text boxes

Feature:

Concise reference guide to children’s orthopedics aimed at the orthopedic trainee working towards the FRCS(Orth) exam

Bulleted lists of facts which are readily accessible

Chapter headings based on common clinical conditions and those most likely to be seen / discussed in the exam

Back cover:

This book provides orthopaedic surgeons in training with concise and relevant core knowledge on all aspects of children’s orthopaedics. Content includes the common orthopaedic conditions that affect children, and key management points in each chapter are highlighted for readers to quickly access this information.

The aim of this resource is to offer an authoritative guide on all facets of children’s orthopaedics so the treating doctor has enough information to confidently allay the anxieties of the patient and their parents, and to identify when to refer the child to a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon. This book will be an essential reference guide for newly qualified orthopaedic specialists, as well as paediatricians and family doctors working in busy clinics that treat children who present with orthopaedic conditions.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Normal variations
3. Limping Child
4. Cerebral Palsy
5. Upper limb

1. Shoulder
2. Elbow
3. Hand

6. Spine

1. Back pain
2. Spondylolysis
3. Scoliosis

7. Hip

1. DDH
2. Perthes
3. Slipped upper femoral epiphysis

8. Lower limb

1. Knee
2. Ankle
3. Foot

9. Lower limb alignment and leg length discrepancy
10. Orthopedic manifestations of syndromes<