Quick Reference Guide to Pediatric Care (Volume 1)

Kamat MD PhD FAAP, Dr. Deepak M.

ISBN 10: 1610021118 / ISBN 13: 9781610021111

Edité par American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017

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Synopsis :

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 headache and herpes infections, to weight loss and wheezing. This indispensable resource delivers practical, action-oriented 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...

À propos des auteurs: Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, FAAP is professor of pediatrics, vice chair for academic affairs and chair of the promotion and tenure committee for the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio. Prior to this he served as the professor of pediatrics, the vice chair of education in the department of pediatrics at Wayne State University and Designated Institutional Official for the Children's Hospital of Michigan from 2003 to 2019.
Dr Kamat has authored and co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts, review articles, book chapters and case reports. He serves on the editorial board of three journals and is an ad hoc manuscript reviewer for many journals. He is editor of 7 books and currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Pediatric Care Online, an on-line resource of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr Kamat is active in multiple national and international medical societies. Currently he serves on the planning committee of National Conference and Exhibition of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Henry M. Adam, MD, FAAP: Until recently, Dr. Henry M. Adam was a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton College and studying as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow at Yale University, he graduated from the State University of NY-Upstate Medical Center in 1979, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Following pediatric residency training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC, he was a Fellow in general and behavioral pediatrics and then joined the faculty at Einstein.

He has directed the Pediatric Outreach Program (1984-86), the AIDS Day Care Center (1987-90), and the Pediatric AIDS Primary Care Program (1990-94), all at Jacobi Medical Center. As an educator, Dr. Adam directed the pediatric residency training program at Montefiore Medical Center (1994-2002), has received the Lewis Fraad Teaching Award, and has been elected to the Leo Davidoff Teaching Society.

Rebecca Baum, MD, FAAP is a developmental behavioral pediatrician at The Olson Huff Center at Mission Children's Hospital in Asheville, NC. She has led several clinical, educational, research, and quality improvement efforts at the state and national levels focused on improving care for children with behavioral health conditions. She is a consultant to the American Board of Pediatrics Foundation's Behavioral/Mental Health Crisis efforts and chair of the American Board of Pediatrics' subboard of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health and liaison to the Section on Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics.

Deborah Campbell, MD, FAAP, is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Program Director for the fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, and Director of the Division of Neonatology at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore. She conducts the Low birth weight infant Evaluation and Assessment Program (LEAP) and has served various leadership roles at the American Academy of Pediatrics, New York State Association of Regional Perinatal Programs and Networks, NYC Local Early Intervention Coordinating Council, and Greater New York March of Dimes Health Professionals Advisory Board and National March of Dimes.

She is a member of the Greater New York Hospital Association Perinatal Safety Collaborative Advisory Group, the National Quality Forum Perinatal Collaborative, and the New York State Perinatal Quality Collaborative Neonatology Expert Workgroup. She also serves on the NYS Palliative Care Education and Training Council, an expert panel that has developed guidance and advice for the New York State Department of Health on best practices in pain management and end-of-life care. She served as a member on the AAP Taskforce on Implementation of Newborn Hearing Screening and the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program. She is currently co-chair of the Bright Futures Guidelines, 4th edition Infancy Expert Panel.

Thomas G. DeWitt, MD, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics, designated institutional officer, and chair of the Graduate Medical Education Committee, as well as associate chair for education in the Department of Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He received his doctorate of medicine from the University of Rochester; he completed a residency and fellowship at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Dr DeWitt served as president of the Academic Pediatric Association and chair of both the Steering Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Research in Office Settings network and the Committee on Pediatric Education. He also served as a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force, chairing its methodology work group, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education transitional year and pediatric residencies review committees. Dr DeWitt is the chair of the Reach Out and Read National Board of Directors. He has pursued innovative and effective approaches to graduate education, including an innovative online master's degree in medical education program.

With more than 95 peer-reviewed publications and as senior editor of 2 general pediatrics textbooks, Dr DeWitt is nationally and internationally known for his publications and presentations in the areas of faculty development and community-based education and research.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Quick Reference Guide to Pediatric Care (...
Éditeur : American Academy of Pediatrics
Date d'édition : 2017
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good
Edition : 2ème Édition