Oxford handbook of tropical medicine / Andrew Brent, Anna Seale, Robert Davidson, Lucille Blumberg.
Contributor(s): Brent, Andrew [editor.] | Seale, Anna [editor.] | Davidson, Robert [editor.] | Blumberg, Lucille [editor.].
Series: Oxford medical handbooks - mixed.Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2021Edition: 5.Description: 918 p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198810858.Genre/Form: Print books.Summary: "Of the 5.6 million deaths/yr that occur in children <5yrs, 2.5 million occur in the 1st month of life and 70% of the others are caused by acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea, measles, and malaria, +/- malnutrition. Many very sick children present with clinical features of more than one diagnosis; thus a single diag-nosis at admission may be impossible. In many low-resource settings, there is no paediatrician and sick children are managed by non-specialists"--Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"Of the 5.6 million deaths/yr that occur in children <5yrs, 2.5 million occur in the 1st month of life and 70% of the others are caused by acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea, measles, and malaria, +/- malnutrition. Many very sick children present with clinical features of more than one diagnosis; thus a single diag-nosis at admission may be impossible. In many low-resource settings, there is no paediatrician and sick children are managed by non-specialists"--