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Overview
This well-established book gives clear guidance on normal development and how to diagnose and manage illness in newborn infants and babies.
The sixth edition of the ABC of the First Year has been fully revised and updated to reflect the introduction of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines, the reduction in universal screening and the increasing care of the newborn provided by family practitioners and midwives. There are new sections on the recognition and prevention of obesity, which is an increasing problem. The reduction in universal screening has resulted in parents requesting advice about their child's development at a variety of ages. A Development Chart shows the age-related normal range in different abilities and activities and will enable family doctors, at a glance, to determine whether a parent should be reassured that an infant is normal or needs further assessment.
The inclusion of useful links and addresses of resources and organisations helps make the new edition of the ABC of the First Year an invaluable resource for GPs, midwives, paediatric nurses, health visitors and medical students, and an ideal companion to Bernard Valman's ABC of One to Seven.
Synopsis
This well-established book gives clear guidance on normal development and how to diagnose and manage illness in newborn infants and babies.
The sixth edition of the ABC of the First Year has been fully revised and updated to reflect the introduction of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines, the reduction in universal screening and the increasing care of the newborn provided by family practitioners and midwives. There are new sections on the recognition and prevention of obesity, which is an increasing problem. The reduction in universal screening has resulted in parents requesting advice about their child’s development at a variety of ages. A Development Chart shows the age-related normal range in different abilities and activities and will enable family doctors, at a glance, to determine whether a parent should be reassured that an infant is normal or needs further assessment.
The inclusion of useful links and addresses of resources and organisations helps make the new edition of the ABC of the First Year an invaluable resource for GPs, midwives, paediatric nurses, health visitors and medical students, and an ideal companion to Bernard Valman’s ABC of One to Seven.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Laura Winkeler, MD(Ochsner for Children)
Description:This is an updated compilation of a series of ABC articles originally published weekly by the British Medical Journal. The book addresses both routine care and problems that frequently arise in the first year of life. The fifth edition was published in 2002.
Purpose:The book was originally published to provide clinicians in the community and in the hospital with generally accepted views on the medical management of infants. Subsequent editions have sought to bring updates and additional relevant timely topics to the attention of practicing clinicians. The book provides an account of normal development in the first year of life so that deviations can be more easily recognized. The book meets these objectives, but in a somewhat simplistic manner that is geared not only to medical professionals (MDs) but also to ancillary medical personnel (nurses, midwives, medical students).
Audience:The intended audience is family doctors, general practitioners, vocational trainees, medical students, midwives, and nurses. The book is used as a standard text for several undergraduate and postgraduate courses according to the preface, although I suspect this is in the U.K. and not the U.S. No previous experience of pediatrics is assumed.
Features:The book covers newborn care, focusing on normal development and findings so that the reader can recognize deviations from the norm. Topics covered include care immediately after birth, feeding, normal growth, and common problems in the first year of life (e.g. fever/convulsions, diarrhea). This edition also covers some newer topics including low birth weight at home, advice on traveling abroad, and pediatric HIV infection. All references to measurements are made in the U.K. metric system.
Assessment:This is a good learning tool/reference for those who are new to the field of pediatrics, but is not a useful reference for pediatricians or GP practitioners who are all already trained and practicing. It is geared toward people practicing in the U.K., rather than in the U.S. The updated edition is warranted with the newer information and topics in order to keep the book timely.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Laura Winkeler, MD(Ochsner for Children)Description: This is an updated compilation of a series of ABC articles originally published weekly by the British Medical Journal. The book addresses both routine care and problems that frequently arise in the first year of life. The fifth edition was published in 2002.
Purpose: The book was originally published to provide clinicians in the community and in the hospital with generally accepted views on the medical management of infants. Subsequent editions have sought to bring updates and additional relevant timely topics to the attention of practicing clinicians. The book provides an account of normal development in the first year of life so that deviations can be more easily recognized. The book meets these objectives, but in a somewhat simplistic manner that is geared not only to medical professionals (MDs) but also to ancillary medical personnel (nurses, midwives, medical students).
Audience: The intended audience is family doctors, general practitioners, vocational trainees, medical students, midwives, and nurses. The book is used as a standard text for several undergraduate and postgraduate courses according to the preface, although I suspect this is in the U.K. and not the U.S. No previous experience of pediatrics is assumed.
Features: The book covers newborn care, focusing on normal development and findings so that the reader can recognize deviations from the norm. Topics covered include care immediately after birth, feeding, normal growth, and common problems in the first year of life (e.g. fever/convulsions, diarrhea). This edition also covers some newer topics including low birth weight at home, advice on traveling abroad, and pediatric HIV infection. All references to measurements are made in the U.K. metric system.
Assessment: This is a good learning tool/reference for those who are new to the field of pediatrics, but is not a useful reference for pediatricians or GP practitioners who are all already trained and practicing. It is geared toward people practicing in the U.K., rather than in the U.S. The updated edition is warranted with the newer information and topics in order to keep the book timely.
From the Publisher
"A concise and illustrated text of assessment, diagnosis and approaches to healthy and diseased babies. For medical students and nurses." (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, April 2010)
"The structure of the book is reader-friendly with clear objectives for each chapter and summary boxes enabling the reader to navigate very easily and have quick access to the needed information. The figures and diagrams are clear, optimal and appropriate to the contents. They are very illustrative and many of them could be used when counseling or giving explanations to parents." (SQU Medical Journal, April 2010)“This well-established book gives clear guidance on normal development and how to diagnose and manage illness in newborn infants and babies.” (Doody's Reviews, June 2009)