Book Reviews Indian Pediatrics 2005; 42:513 |
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Short Clinical Review of Malaria and Kalazar |
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Malaria and Kalazar are two endemic diseases in many parts of India. Resistance of commonly used drugs for these two diseases are causing serious health problems. This short clinical review on Malaria and Kalazar provides useful information in a concise manner, Practitioners, particularly will find the book useful as management aspect has been highlighted lucidly. The book could be used as a ready desk top reference by doctors specially in endemic areas, Panna Choudhury,
This voluminous and comprehensive text deals with various emergency conditions encountered in children. Eighty-nine contributors have covered most of these including some "non-emergencies" (infantile tremor syndrome, antibiotic induced diarrhea, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, hemolytic uremic syndrome, earache, epistaxis; etc). Each chapter has a brief consideration of pathophysiology and etiopatho-genesis (the chapter on acute seizures mentions Inter-national classification of epilepsy and newer antiepileptic drugs), which may be useful but adds to the size of the book. Most conditions are adequately dealt with. I was pleased to see "child abuse and neglect" included, which often presents with emergency situations. Trauma and orthopedic injuries, road traffic accidents, crush injury are some of the notable omissions. The book contains a wealth of information and is great value for money. I strongly recommend every pediatrician to buy it. R.N. Srivastava,
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