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<p>Contributors</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>Foreword</p> <p>RCH Handbook list</p> <p>Preface</p> <p>1. Communication in the Paediatric Consultation</p> <p>2. Ethics</p> <p>3. Resuscitation and Medical Emergencies</p> <p>4. Poisoning and Envenomation</p> <p>5. Procedures</p> <p>6. Pain management</p> <p>7. Fluid and Electrolytes</p> <p>8. Prescribing and Therapeutics</p> <p>9. Immunisation</p> <p>10. Nutrition</p> <p>11. Growth</p> <p>12. Adolescent Medicine</p> <p>13. Allergy</p> <p>14. Behaviour and Mental health</p> <p>15. Cardiology</p> <p>16. Clinical genetics</p> <p>17. Dentistry</p> <p>18. Dermatology          </p> <p>19. Endocrinology</p> <p>20. Forensic medicine</p> <p>21. Gastroenterology</p> <p>22. Gynaecology</p> <p>23. Haematology</p> <p>24. Immunology</p> <p>25. Infectious diseases</p> <p>26. Metabolic medicine </p> <p>27. Neonatal medicine</p> <p>28. Neurodevelopment and Disability </p> <p>29. Neurology</p> <p>30. Oncology</p> <p>31. Ophthalmology</p> <p>32. Orthopaedics</p> <p>33. Otolaryngology</p> <p>34. Palliative care</p> <p>35. Refugee Health</p> <p>36. Rehabilitation medicine</p> <p>37. Renal medicine</p> <p>38. Respiratory medicine</p> <p>39. Rheumatology</p> <p>40. Sleep medicine</p> <p>41. Surgery</p> <p>42. Trans and gender diverse health</p> <p>Appendix: Antimicrobial guidelines</p> <p>Index</p>

<p><b>Dr Kate Harding,</b> The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. <p><b>Dr Daniel S. Mason,</b> The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. <p><b>Associate Professor Daryl Efron,</b> The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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