Family doctors, pediatricians and other professionals who deal with children are regularly consulted because of febrile children. During the past few years remarkable advances on this subject of fever have been made. Among others, this book covers: - Different types of fever with possible complications, - Hyperthermia and their management, - Management of fever with guidelines on antipyretics and their side effects, - Complimentary medicine and fever, - Differential diagnosis of fever, with problem-setting and solving as a case presentation. This reader-friendly reference on the disorders of body temperature in children covers the entire spectrum of subjects related to fever. It gives an overview of the best treatment options in order to achieve the best results.
Author(s): A. Sahib El-Radhi FRCPCH, MRCP,Ph.D, DCH, James Carroll MD, Nigel Klein MBBS, BSc, PhD, MRCP, FRCPCH (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009
Language: English
Commentary: 51462
Pages: 318
Tags: Pediatrics; Primary Care Medicine; General Practice / Family Medicine; Nursing; Internal Medicine
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Fever....Pages 1-24
Hyperthermia....Pages 25-46
Pathogenesis of Fever....Pages 47-61
Measurement of Body Temperature....Pages 63-79
Fever in Common Infectious Diseases....Pages 81-135
Fever in Non-infectious Diseases....Pages 137-173
Febrile Seizures....Pages 175-192
Hypothermia....Pages 193-210
Is Fever Beneficial?....Pages 211-222
Management of Fever (Antipyretics)....Pages 223-250
Fever and Complimentary Medicine....Pages 251-258
Differential Diagnosis (DD) of Febrile Diseases....Pages 259-285
History of Fever....Pages 287-298
Glossary of the Term Fever....Pages 299-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-318
