Significantly revised and updated, the second edition of this popular quick reference guide provides information and advice on 190 areas of current pediatric care, everything from abdominal pain and ADHD, to herpes infections and headache to weight loss and wheezing. This indispensable resource delivers practical, action-orientated, clinical solutions for healthcare professionals to use during or between patient encounters. Authoritative content is presented in a concise outline format that helps speed and simplify decision-making.
Regardless of the patient presentation you're confronted with, you'll have quick access to the help you need to:
- Efficiently evaluate signs and symptoms.
- Order the right screening/diagnostic tests.
- Implement approved therapeutic strategies.
- Prescribe safe and effective medications
- Recommend proven prevention measures.
- Confidently respond to parent questions.
- 35 new chapters including
- Anxiety
- Ataxia
- Coagulation disorders
- Cyanosis
- Drug interactions and adverse effects
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Fragile X syndrome
- Hemangiomas
- Hypocalcemia, hypercalcemia, and hypercalcuria
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Klinefelter syndrome
- Learning disorders
- Metabolic disorders beyond the newborn period
- Munchausen syndrome by proxy: medical child abuse
- Pancreatitis
- Papulosquamous disease
- Pierre-Robin syndrome
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Symptoms of emotional disturbance in young children (Birth to 5 Years)
- Turner syndrome and Noonan syndrome
- And more...
Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, is professor of pediatrics and the Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Pediatrics at Wayne State University, and Designated Institutional Official Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
Dr. Kamat has been honored with “Teacher of the Year” awards by medical students and residents on multiple occasions. In 2009, he received the Wayne State University Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award. and in 2010 he received the National AAP Education Award/
Dr. Kamat is an editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics Textbook of Pediatric Care and Pediatric Care Online. He is also editor-in-chief of the AAP Quick Reference Guide to Pediatric Care and Challenging cases in Pediatric Diagnosis. He is the co-editor of the AAP Textbook of Global Child Health. He is editor for the Index of Suspicion in Pediatrics in Review. He has been a member of Pediatric RC of ACGME for last 6 years and also served as the vice chair of the committee for the last 18 months.
“This is an extraordinarily helpful, practical, concise, go-to resource for busy pediatric providers. It covers an extensive list of varied topics, signs, and symptoms and is written in a manner that likely will make it a trusted real-time resource.” — Maria Alcocer Alkureishi, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal Winner!
