Atlas of Child Development

Pediatrics is a wide-ranging medical science that touches on almost all specialties, especially in the office. Parents bring their children to the pediatrician when they are ill or for regular check-ups. These examinations are becoming an increasingly important part of the work of practicing pediatricians. Through the history, observation, clinical examination and complementary examinations, the pediatrician’s job is to find out if there is something wrong with the child or not.

In the face of a rather meager literature on preventive examinations, this book will be of definite help and will answer in detail many questions such as: what is the right setting, how to take a good history, how to conduct a target clinical examination, how to identify developmental disorders and variants? The author, a practicing developmental pediatrician and winner of the renowned Fanconi Award, addresses all of these topics from a practical perspective and with the help of numerous illustrations. After reading this book, you will no longer have any secrets about preventive examinations and you will be able to carry out your main mission, which is to support children and their parents in the best possible way!

This atlas covers all the topics of real importance to pediatricians in the office:

• general child development, child protection, accident prevention;
• pediatric anamnesis, examination techniques;
• accompaniment from the resuscitation of the newborn (Updated with the European Guidelines of Neonatal Resuscitation 2023.)
  to the transition of the adolescent to the adult medicine;
• detailed description of the different age groups and specific disorders: newborns, infants, toddlers, pre-school children, school children and adolescents;
• therapeutic measures and recommendations;
• precise, systematic and clear instructions for conducting the EP1 to EP10/EPA1 prevention examinations;
• official checklists of the Swiss Pediatric Society (SGP);
• more than 3000 very illustrative pictures;
• developmental charts, to identify the most subtle deviations;
• Countless standard value tables
• main pathological findings and developmental variants;
• examination steps illustrated step by step, with the main pathological findings and variations;
• practical tips for the history, examinations and tests (also with uncooperative children)
• numerous practical aids (checklists, series of images, developmental charts, guidelines, tables of normal values, percentiles), also on how to inform the parents;
• nutritional advice, questionnaires, addresses, references and a complete index.

Practice for practice, image by image, to identify the smallest deviations in the development of the different systems of the organism and the typical associated disorders;