Instant Work-ups: A Clinical Guide to Pediatrics
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Instant Work-ups: A Clinical Guide to Pediatrics

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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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Information

Publisher
Saunders
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781416054627
eBook ISBN
9781437725131
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Pediatric Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. About the author
  6. Dedication
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1: Abdominal pain (chronic and recurrent)
  9. Chapter 2: Abnormal head size and shape
  10. Chapter 3: Acute scrotum
  11. Chapter 4: Anemia
  12. Chapter 5: Apparent life-threatening event
  13. Chapter 6: Autism
  14. Chapter 7: Bleeding and bruising
  15. Chapter 8: Cerebrospinal fluid evaluation
  16. Chapter 9: Chest pain
  17. Chapter 10: Chronic cough
  18. Chapter 11: Constipation
  19. Chapter 12: Cyanosis
  20. Chapter 13: Diarrhea, acute
  21. Chapter 14: Diarrhea, chronic
  22. Chapter 15: Encopresis
  23. Chapter 16: Failure to thrive
  24. Chapter 17: Febrile seizures
  25. Chapter 18: Fever of unknown origin
  26. Chapter 19: Gynecomastia
  27. Chapter 20: Headache
  28. Chapter 21: Heart murmur
  29. Chapter 22: Hematuria, gross
  30. Chapter 23: Hematuria, microscopic
  31. Chapter 24: Hirsutism
  32. Chapter 25: Hyperbilirubinemia
  33. Chapter 26: Hypercoagulable states
  34. Chapter 27: Hypertension
  35. Chapter 28: Hyperthyroidism
  36. Chapter 29: Limp
  37. Chapter 30: Lymphadenopathy
  38. Chapter 31: Musculoskeletal pain
  39. Chapter 32: Neck masses
  40. Chapter 33: Nocturnal enuresis
  41. Chapter 34: Obesity
  42. Chapter 35: Precocious puberty
  43. Chapter 36: Proteinuria
  44. Chapter 37: Purpura
  45. Chapter 38: Scrotal masses
  46. Chapter 39: Seizures
  47. Chapter 40: Speech and language problems
  48. Chapter 41: Strabismus
  49. Chapter 42: Stridor
  50. Chapter 43: Syncope
  51. Chapter 44: Thrombocytopenia
  52. Chapter 45: Transaminase elevation
  53. Chapter 46: Urinary tract infection
  54. Index

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