CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics, Nineteenth Edition (LANGE CURRENT Series) - Softcover

Hay,William; Levin,Myron; Deterding,Robin; Sondheimer,Judith

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9780071544337: CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics, Nineteenth Edition (LANGE CURRENT Series)

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ISBN 10: 007154433X ISBN 13: 9780071544337

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008

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The Classic On-the-Go Guide to Pediatric Practice--Now More Current and Essential Than Ever!

A Doody's Core Title!

CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics has long been the go-to guide for students, residents, and practitioners looking for concise, reliable, and up-to-date information. It continues to provide succinct, up-to-date, and clinically relevant coverage of how to assess and treat common disorders in children, from eating disorders and cardiovascular diseases to STDs.

Features:

Easy-to-follow LANGE CURRENT outline format: Problem, Essentials of Diagnosis and Typical Features, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis
Organized by general topics such as care of the newborn and community pediatrics, as well as by organ system and specific disease/problems
"Essentials of Diagnosis and Typical Features" provide instant guidance on identifying both common and rare problems
Accessible overviews of important pediatric health concerns, including substance abuse, psychiatric disorders, child abuse and neglect, normal childhood nutrition and its disorders, and emergencies and injuries
NEW to this edition: chapter on Sport Medicine (a key area of pediatrics for which students and residents state they need more training--ACGME survey), completely reorganized section on Infectious Diseases reflecting the most recent clinical perspectives, expanded section on lab and reference values

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Key Benefit: This complete and practical reference provides up-to-date clinical information on the ambulatory and inpatient medical care of children from birth through infancy and adolescence. Key Topics: New chapters include information on HIV and other Retroviral infections and Diabetes Mellitus. Extensive tables and figures offer quick access to important information such as anti-infective agents, drug dosages, immunization schedules, differential diagnoses, and developmental screening tests. Market: Residents, medical students, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and practicing physicians.

About the Author:

William W. Hay, Jr., MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics Section in Neonatalogy and the Division of Perinatal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children’s Hospital, Denver.

Myron J. Levin, MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Denver

Judith M. Sondheimer, MD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Denver

Robin R. Deterding, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Denver

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