The Second Edition of Pocket Medicines for Children is designed as a guide to those who prescribe and dispense medicines for children. It is of invaluable assistance to the junior doctor, nurse and pharmacist working on the wards. The drug monographs are presented in alphabetical order by generic name. In most cases the dosage information is presented in the tabular form.

The book contains a section on nutrition tables (Ingredients of special infant formulae). The new edition reflects changes in paediatric practice. It complements the second edition of Medicines for Children.

The information in Pocket Medicines for Children relies entirely on the enormous amount of work put into the second edition of Medicines for Children by a large number of contributors and reviewers.