Manual Of Emergency Care

PREFACE

Early disease recognition and institution of proper therapy is the key to ensuring survival of the children that come to us for care. The idea of the emergency manual arose from the desire to guide decision making in diagnosis and management of children that present in the Emergency Ward of the department of Paediatrics. Following this, a committee was set up to produce a manual with a formal of definition, aetiology, signs and symptoms, investigations, treatment and references. Where possible, interventions were to be based on best available evidence which should be rated A (systematic review of RCT) to E (expert opinion).