• The book is a concise, wide-ranging, and up-to-date ready reference companion guide for pediatricians, residents, postgraduate (PG) and undergraduate (UG) students, and general practitioners. • It provides standard guidelines for the management of a wide-range of pediatric disorders encountered in ones day-to-day practice in outdoor, indoor, as well as intensive care settings. • The spectrum of effectiveness of various antibiotics and their rational use in management of different types of infections has been described. • Current guidelines for immunization and pre- and postexposure prophylaxis in children have been discussed. • The indications, dosage, precautions, contraindications, and side effects of various drugs used in neonates, infants, and children alongside names of some proprietary products have been detailed. • An excellent index provides instant retrieval of the conditions being searched for, which enables prompt institution of appropriate therapy