Succinct Pediatrics: Evaluation and Management for Common and Critical Care

Confidently evaluate evidence-based information to make timely and accurate diagnoses and treatment decisions!

Starting with this volume, Succinct Pediatrics will be an ongoing series covering the entire scope of pediatric medicine. Each volume will include short chapters with key features and invaluable tables and algorithms, allowing health care professionals the opportunity to deliver the highest quality of care.

The first volume features 72 topics with key points and detailed therapies. The book starts with an overview of the core knowledge needed for medical decision-making. Evidence-based levels of decision support are also provided throughout the book to provide insight into diagnostic tests and treatment modalities.

Part 1: Common Problems in Pediatric Practice
Covers the "top 50" most common problems including:

• Asthma
• Breastfeeding
• Colic
• Constiptation
• Cough
• Diarrhea
• Ear Pain
• Fever
• Headaches and Migraines
• Rashes
• Vomiting
• and more

Part 2: Critical and Emergency Care
Covers 25 key conditions seen as urgent or pediatric emergencies, including:

• Acute bleeding
• Anaphylaxis
• Epistaxis
• Heart Failure
• Poisoning
• Respiratory distress and apnea
• Seizures
• Traumatic brain injury
• and more!

Leonard G. Feld, MD, FAAP recently retired from Nicklaus Children’s Health System. During his career, Dr Feld held leadership positions at the Levine Children’s Hospital, Carolinas Healthcare System (now Atrium Health), and the Atlantic Health System in New Jersey. He established the Center for Advancing Pediatric Excellence (at Levine Children’s Hospital), which was the physician enterprise and hospital-based program for improving the quality and safety of children. Over his academic career, Dr Feld has been Professor of Pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, UNDNJ Newark School of Medicine, University of North Carolina’s at Chapel Hill and Florida International University School of Medicine. His main area of research was kidney disease and diabetes.  He has edited several books for the American Academy of Pediatrics and the monograph on Pediatric Quality for Pediatric Clinics of North America. Dr Feld received his MD and PhD from SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine, his pediatric training at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, and pediatric nephrology training at the Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr Feld earned his Masters in Medical Management (MMM) degree from Carnegie Mellon University H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management.
 
 

John D. Mahan, MD, FAAP is Professor of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine (OSU COM) where he is also Director for Education in the OSU COM Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring and Engagement (FAME), Director of the Center for Faculty Development at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Program Director for the Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
 

Charles F. Willson, MD, is first and foremost a generalist pediatrician and child advocate. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and MD from the University of Virginia in 1974. After a pediatric internship at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, he entered the US Navy to pay back a scholarship commitment. He served as a general medical officer at Camp LeJeune from 1975 to 1977. Then he returned to the University of North Carolina to complete his residency, serving as chief resident in 1980.

Dr. Willson entered private practice with Greenville Pediatric Services, Inc., becoming an owner in 1982. In 1996, he led the development of a physician-led primary care medical home project for Medicaid patients in eastern North Carolina. He served as part-time medical director for the Community Care Plan of Eastern Carolina for 12 years, growing the program from one county with 12,500 patients to 27 counties with 122,000 patients.

In 1999, Dr. Willson left private practice to become a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University where he most recently served as the Interim Chairman of the Pediatrics Department and the Director of the Center for Children With Complex and Chronic Conditions. He has served in leadership roles in the North Carolina Pediatric Society, rising to president in 2002, and the North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS), serving as president in 2005. He currently is a delegate from NCMS to the American Medical Association (AMA), and served eight years on the AMA Council on Medical Service. He has been a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine since 2000 and served on its Board of Directors until 2014.

He and his wife of 43 years, Wendy, have three daughters and two grandsons.