The most practical, up-to-date guide available for accurately diagnosing and effectively treating child patients-from birth to adolescence
A Doody's Core Title for 2023!
The authoritative resource to pediatric medical conditions most often encountered in daily practice, CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics provides the evidence-based information readers need to deliver effective care in every situation.
Packed with 200 photos and illustrations, this evidence-based text offers succinct, accurate overviews of important pediatric health concerns, such as childhood nutrition and eating disorders; substance use; psychiatric disorders; child abuse; oral medicine and dentistry; immunization; and emergencies and injuries. Complete with an invaluable guide to normal laboratory values, it provides detailed descriptions of diseases, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and present all information in the time-saving style that makes LANGE CURRENT books so popular: Problem, Essentials of Diagnosis, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis.
KEY FEATURES
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A practical, up-to-date well-referenced guide to the diagnosis and treatment of the most commonly seen medical conditions in children
- Excellent coverage of The Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) curriculum used in pediatric clerkship
46 chapters cover a wide range of topics, including neonatal medicine, child development and behavior, emergency and critical care medicine, and diagnosis and treatment of specific disorders according to major problems, etiologies, and organ systems
- A wealth of tables and figures provide quick access to important information, such as acute and critical care procedures in the delivery room, the office, the emergency room, and the critical care unit; anti-infective agents, drug dosages, immunization schedules, differential diagnoses, and developmental disorders
- Includes detailed descriptions of diseases as well as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
- Complete with handy guide to normal laboratory values
- Presented in the consistent, easy-to-follow CURRENT format
- Valuable to medical students, pediatric residents, pediatricians, family practitioners, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other healthcare providers who work with infants, children, and adolescents
- Authors are practicing pediatricians to ensure that each chapter reflects the needs and realities of day-to-day practice
ISBN 10: 1264269986
ISBN 13: 9781264269983