Significant changes in medical science contribute to implementation of innovations concerning management of various diseases. The rapid acquisition of medical knowledge and integration into the global educational space dictates the need to create new generation educational literature distinguished by a systematic exposition, conciseness, numerous illustrations, reference materials and self-control tests. The authors are inviting international students? attention to the textbook of Pediatric diseases, which meets the listed requirements and covers all the areas of Pediatrics, including the issues of history, neonatology, pathology of young and older children, infectious diseases, emergency conditions and emergency care.
It is not presented in a descriptive form, habitual for perception, but rather in the form of well-illustrated anamnestic, clinical and paraclinical diagnostic criteria, etiology and pathogenesis schemes, differential diagnostic tables and algorithms, diagnostic and treatment programs. One of the main motives for writing this book is an attempt to give the textbook a self-directed learning, a visually understandable form. This is the basic standard upheld in academic text-books all over the world.
The present textbook of Pediatric diseases will help students of General medicine to discover the fascinating world of clinical pediatric practice. The science of children?s health is probably one of the most dynamic and interesting disciplines. The ability to assess the development of the child, his compliance with age criteria, detect potential health disorders, prescribe a proper regimen, diet and, if necessary, drug and non-drug therapies, contributes to the development of autonomous clinical thinking, which is absolutely necessary for every modern doctor. Especially, it concerns the issues of child care and nutrition for children at any age, since you, dear students, are also future parents. The knowledge gained will help you in rising your own children.