Main description:

This book provides a comprehensive, evidence-based guide on how to manage pediatric orthopedic problems safely and confidently. The format allows the reader to identify key points whilst working in their busy clinical practice. Each chapter is co-written by an orthopedic surgeon and general practitioner to ensure the content is relevant to primary care, but also sufficiently detailed to meet the needs of those in specialist training. The book is divided into two parts; general topics including assessment, normal variants, infections and specific disorders; followed by a section based on specific anatomical regions.

Pediatric Orthopedics for Primary Healthcare: Evidence-Based Practice will be an essential resource for a wide audience including but not limited to general practitioners and trainees, pediatric orthopedic surgeons, trauma surgeons, orthopedic residents, emergency department doctors, physiotherapists, podiatrists and medical students who are seeking a concise, yet comprehensive evidence-based resource for this important specialty.

Contents:

A General section: This covers general topics including the followings:

1. Introduction

2. Children normal development

3. General assessment

4. Normal variants

5. Infections

6. Tumours

7. Metabolic bone diseases

8. Neuromuscular conditions

9. Relevant syndromes

10. Musculoskeletal Dysplasias

11. Limb Deformity

12. Safeguarding Children

13. Miscellaneous Paediatric Orthopaedic Condition

B- Region specific topics. This is based on body regions:

14. Paediatric hip disorders

15. Paediatric knee disorders

16. Paediatric foot disorders

17. Paediatric spine disorders

18. Paediatric shoulder disorders

19. Paediatric elbow disorders

20. Paediatric hand and wrist disorders