Practical Pediatric Urology: An Evidence-Based Approach - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030540197 ISBN 13: 9783030540197

Publisher: Springer, 2020

Synopsis

This book provides a case based approach to the problems faced within pediatric urology and an evidence based approach to their solutions. Chapters on urodynamics, external genitalia, the upper urinary tract, the lower urinary tract, and office pediatric urology are included.

 

Practical Pediatric Urology aims to utilise real life scenarios to improve data analysis, diagnosis, and treatment decisions within clinical settings. Key learning objectives are included to enable medical professionals to assimilate, synthesise, and formulate a management plan for pediatric urological conditions encountered in clinical practice in a safe and evidence based approach.

This book is relevant to pediatricians, pediatric surgeons, pediatric urologists and adult urologists who undertake some pediatric urology practice.

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About the Author

Professor Godbole is a Consultant Paediatric Urologist with a special interest in reconstructive Urology and Paediatric urinary stone disease. He is an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Health and Well Being at Sheffield Hallam University. He has published widely in peer reviewed journals and authored many chapters in textbooks. He has a strong track record in research and has edited 5 textbooks in Pediatric Urology. He has also completed an MBA in Medical Leadership and Healthcare Management and an LLM in Healthcare Ethics and Medicolegal Law. He completed his fellowship training at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

Professor Wilcox trained at the University of London and completed his residency there. He completed his fellowship in Pediatric Urology at the University of London at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. Special areas of interest are hypospadias surgery, genitourinary problems in patients born with imperforate anus and patients with spinal defects. He is an investigator in a number of clinical outcome studies specifically involving hypospadias, undescended testicles and patients with hydronephrosis. He has a long term research interest in the clinical problems associated with patients born with imperforate anus and works closely with the Pediatric Surgeons at The Children's Hospital to provide comprehensive multidisciplinary care to these patients.

Professor Koyle joined SickKids as the Head of the Division of Urology, and the University of Toronto as a Professor of Surgery in July of 2011. He was previously Division Chief at Seattle Children’s and the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, where he held the Michael Mitchell Endowed Chair in Paediatric Urology. After completing his medical school education in Winnipeg, Canada, at the University of Manitoba, he undertook residency and fellowship training at Los Angeles – USC Medical Center, Harvard University and in San Francisco. Koyle completed an M.Sc in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIP) at IHPME at the University of Toronto where he remains on faculty, in addition to being a core faculty member of C-QuIPS (Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety). During his more than a third of a century in academic urology, Koyle has been known for his many innovations and contributions, specifically to the fields of paediatric urology and transplantation, as well as leadership and quality improvement and patient safety.

 

From the Back Cover

This book provides a case based approach to the problems faced within pediatric urology and an evidence based approach to their solutions. Chapters on urodynamics, external genitalia, the upper urinary tract, the lower urinary tract, and office pediatric urology are included.

 

Practical Pediatric Urology aims to utilise real life scenarios to improve data analysis, diagnosis, and treatment decisions within clinical settings. Key learning objectives are included to enable medical professionals to assimilate, synthesise, and formulate a management plan for pediatric urological conditions encountered in clinical practice in a safe and evidence based approach.

This book is relevant to pediatricians, pediatric surgeons, pediatric urologists and adult urologists who undertake some pediatric urology practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030540197
• ISBN 13: 9783030540197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 530
• Editor: Godbole Prasad, Wilcox Duncan T., Koyle Martin A.