Abstract
Urgent and pre-hospital pediatric care has recently become a rapidly developing field. With the increasing demands on the knowledge and skills of pre-hospital care workers, children's emergency admissions and trauma centers, the need arose to provide them with a reasonably comprehensive and sufficiently clear textbook.
Therefore, in the autumn of 2017, the Children's Prehospital and Emergency Care of the authors Mix, Heinige, Vobruba et al. The book was extremely well received by the medical and non-medical public, students and many other staff whose profession threatens to meet sick or injured children.
The book quickly became a sought-after tool. At present, however, it already requires major transport.
The second, supplemented and expanded edition is again conceived as a monograph consisting of a general part, which describes the basic principles of prehospital care and basic data from pediatric physiology and pharmacology. The special section collects data on specific emergencies, both internal and surgical in nature, which come into consideration in childhood.
Compared to the first edition, most chapters are updated according to the latest scientific findings and comments from the professional public and reviewers. Chapters dealing with emergencies in pediatric gynecology or cardiology and a chapter dealing with mass disasters have been added.
The conclusion of the book was again left with reviews, tables and an extensive chapter on cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The format of the book was changed from a small pocket to the usual monograph format.
We expect greater clarity and easier work with this now quite extensive publication. The target group of readers are practical and clinical pediatricians, emergency workers, doctors and non-doctors, anesthesiologists and pediatric intensivists, students of medical and non-medical medical schools, paramedics, doctors and non-doctors.