Practical Pediatric Hematology
- Second Edition
- New Delhi • Panama City • London Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd 2012
- 350 Pages
Includes Index
These are exciting times for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. Major advances during the past decade in the field have enhanced our understanding and significantly influenced the management and outcome of many of these chronic and fatal diseases affecting children. Achieving the gold standard of care for children patients should be our goal. Given the realistic situation under which we function, and due to the major sociocultural and economic hurdles this ideal may seem a utopian goal. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that we can achieve together much more than we alone can do. There are many novel adaptations that we could adopt in our clinic practice and management guidelines that would benefit a large chunk of patients. Training, I think, is the cornerstone for this progress! The PHO Chapter of IAP has been in the forefront of IAP activities leading in many ways—publication on anemia in children, pediatric hematology and oncology; parent education booklet on ALL, hemophilia, thalassemia; publishing management guidelines on sickle cell disease, ITP, blood component therapy national training programs on pediatric oncology; publication of PHO newsletter; promoting subspecialty fellowship training; preparing teaching slide sets on CD; Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, website—phoindia.org, etc. Training in Practical Pediatric Hematology (NTP-PPH) is the latest venture of PHO chapter program for training in practical pediatric hematology will be kicked off in January 2006 at Gurgaon, Haryana, India. This will be a 2 days course in intensive practical training for pediatricians and postgraduates. The launch of this program has been a dream come true for many of us who have waited for long to make this happen. This unique idea and process of training pediatricians in practical aspects of Pediatric Hematology will instantly raise the standards of care provided to children suffering with hematological disorders throughout the country. I take this opportunity to thank Dr Nitin K Shah, President IAP 2006, to adopt this program under the IAP Action Plan 2006 and provide us this important platform to spread our message with very wide visibility also acknowledge the massive contributions of our dynamic honorary secretary and the National Co-ordinator of NTP-PPH, Dr Anupam Sachdeva. Hope you enjoy reading this interesting manual and send us your feedback for its improvement in the future. These are exciting times for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. Major advances during the past decade in the field have enhanced our understanding and significantly influenced the management and outcome of many of these chronic and fatal diseases affecting children. Achieving the gold standard of care for children patients should be our goal. Given the realistic situation under which we function, and due to the major sociocultural and economic hurdles this ideal may seem a utopian goal. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that we can achieve together much more than we alone can do. There are many novel adaptations that we could adopt in our clinic practice and management guidelines that would benefit a large chunk of patients. Training, I think, is the cornerstone for this progress! The PHO Chapter of IAP has been in the forefront of IAP activities leading in many ways—publication on anemia in children, pediatric hematology and oncology; parent education booklet on ALL, hemophilia, thalassemia; publishing management guidelines on sickle cell disease, ITP, blood component therapy national training programs on pediatric oncology; publication of PHO newsletter; promoting subspecialty fellowship training; preparing teaching slide sets on CD; Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, website—phoindia.org, etc. Training in Practical Pediatric Hematology (NTP-PPH) is the latest venture of PHO chapter program for training in practical pediatric hematology will be kicked off in January 2006 at Gurgaon, Haryana, India. This will be a 2 days course in intensive practical training for pediatricians and postgraduates. The launch of this program has been a dream come true for many of us who have waited for long to make this happen. This unique idea and process of training pediatricians in practical aspects of Pediatric Hematology will instantly raise the standards of care provided to children suffering with hematological disorders throughout the country. I take this opportunity to thank Dr Nitin K Shah, President IAP 2006, to adopt this program under the IAP Action Plan 2006 and provide us this important platform to spread our message with very wide visibility also acknowledge the massive contributions of our dynamic honorary secretary and the National Co-ordinator of NTP-PPH, Dr Anupam Sachdeva. Hope you enjoy reading this interesting manual and send us your feedback for its improvement in the future.