SickKids Handbook of Pediatric Thrombosis and Hemostasis takes the reader through the entire field of paediatric thrombosis and hemostasis. This practical reference book will be a convenient, comprehensive, source of information and provides up-to-date, evidence-based guidance in the diagnosis and management of inherited and acquired bleeding disorders and thrombotic events of the venous, arterial, cardiac and central nervous systems that affect children, including the neonate. Written and reviewed by international experts in the field, SickKids Handbook of Pediatric Thrombosis and Hemostasis will guide health care professionals involved in the assessment and care of children with all types of bleeding and clotting disorders, including general and specialist pediatricians, in particular intensivists, neonatologists, cardiologists/cardiac surgeons, rheumatologists and nephrologists; hematologists/oncologists as well as nurses, nurse practitioners and pharmacists. Written in a user-friendly, algorithmic approach, the resource will serve students and trainees and assist teachers in developing practical lessons.
This new edition presents guidelines for initiating and monitoring existing and new drug therapies for the treatment of thromboembolic complications in children.
Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Inc.; 2007.) 5 UMBILICAL VEIN AND UMBILICAL ARTERY CATHETERIZATION (UVC, UAC) 1. Indications: UVC: emergent delivery of resuscitative medications, volume expanders or ...
Written by top pediatricians from the world-famous Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, this handbook encapsulates 68 chapters covering assessment and management of emergency pediatric illness and injury.
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The Handbook of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology has been designed to provide clinicians of all levels with practical guidance through an up-to-date algorithmic approach to these conditions.
This book will be anindispensable part of every hemostasis laboratory, where, given itshands-on nature, it will rarely sit to get dusty on theshelves." —Frits R. Rosendaal, Leiden University MedicalCenter The hemostasis laboratory has a ...
This practical guide provides all the information necessary to understand the clotting mechanisms, as well as how to prevent, diagnose, and treat bleeding and clotting disorders. Practical Hemostasis and Thrombosis...
Articles in this volume deal with the emerging, intriguing possibility that immune cells are both a source and a target of angiogenic and lymphangiogenic factors.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) occurs less often in children than adults and therefore remains underrecognized despite increasing in incidence.