
Instant Work-ups: A Clinical Guide to Pediatrics
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Instant Work-ups: A Clinical Guide to Pediatrics
About this book
Instant Workups: Clinical Guide to Pediatrics, by Theodore X. O'Connell, MD, is a portable pocket resource and quick refresher that helps you develop and refine your diagnostic skills. Practical and easy to use, it provides clear workup plans for the most common pediatric conditions, providing you with quick, focused guidance with the flexibility to adapt to each unique patient. Topics are organized alphabetically and cover the signs, symptoms, and abnormal lab readings for each condition. Replace information taken from memory or multiple references with one concise, indispensable book so you can make accurate diagnoses in less time!- Covers the most commonly encountered pediatric conditions to provide you with a practical and useful manual for daily practice.- Reflects how a patient actually presents with an organization by presenting sign, symptom, or lab abnormality.- Includes a brief background discussion on each topic, followed by lists of important related materials (such as medications that may contribute to each condition) and laboratory and/or radiographic tests to be ordered.- Describes each diagnostic test so you can refresh or familiarize yourself with the purpose of the test.- Provides a sound framework for building a workup with algorithms for each topic.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- About the author
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Abdominal pain (chronic and recurrent)
- Chapter 2: Abnormal head size and shape
- Chapter 3: Acute scrotum
- Chapter 4: Anemia
- Chapter 5: Apparent life-threatening event
- Chapter 6: Autism
- Chapter 7: Bleeding and bruising
- Chapter 8: Cerebrospinal fluid evaluation
- Chapter 9: Chest pain
- Chapter 10: Chronic cough
- Chapter 11: Constipation
- Chapter 12: Cyanosis
- Chapter 13: Diarrhea, acute
- Chapter 14: Diarrhea, chronic
- Chapter 15: Encopresis
- Chapter 16: Failure to thrive
- Chapter 17: Febrile seizures
- Chapter 18: Fever of unknown origin
- Chapter 19: Gynecomastia
- Chapter 20: Headache
- Chapter 21: Heart murmur
- Chapter 22: Hematuria, gross
- Chapter 23: Hematuria, microscopic
- Chapter 24: Hirsutism
- Chapter 25: Hyperbilirubinemia
- Chapter 26: Hypercoagulable states
- Chapter 27: Hypertension
- Chapter 28: Hyperthyroidism
- Chapter 29: Limp
- Chapter 30: Lymphadenopathy
- Chapter 31: Musculoskeletal pain
- Chapter 32: Neck masses
- Chapter 33: Nocturnal enuresis
- Chapter 34: Obesity
- Chapter 35: Precocious puberty
- Chapter 36: Proteinuria
- Chapter 37: Purpura
- Chapter 38: Scrotal masses
- Chapter 39: Seizures
- Chapter 40: Speech and language problems
- Chapter 41: Strabismus
- Chapter 42: Stridor
- Chapter 43: Syncope
- Chapter 44: Thrombocytopenia
- Chapter 45: Transaminase elevation
- Chapter 46: Urinary tract infection
- Index