Clinical Pediatrics Diagnosis & Treatment Textbook

A Problem-Based Approach to Disease Recognition, Bedside Management, and Subspecialty Care for House Officers

von Andrew M. Lerner MD

442 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Clinical Pediatrics Diagnosis & Treatment Textbook connects age-adjusted physiology, developmental context, disease mechanisms, and bedside findings to the decisions house officers make during pediatric assessment, stabilization, investigation, treatment, and referral. It moves from newborn transition, growth, prevention, and emergency care through symptom-based evaluation, organ-system disease, genetics, adolescent health, mental health, and the management of children with medical complexity.The Pediatric Presentation-to-Plan System organizes each major clinical problem around immediate threats, age modifiers, high-value differentials, diagnostic pivots, management priorities, escalation criteria, and common reasoning traps. The concluding Master Atlas provides rapid navigation from presenting complaint to the chapters and subspecialties required for definitive care.- Assess the child by age and developmental stage - interpret vital signs, feeding, growth, behavior, examination findings, and caregiver observations within the correct physiologic context.- Stabilize pediatric emergencies - recognize respiratory failure, shock, sepsis, status epilepticus, metabolic decompensation, surgical disease, and oncologic crises before diagnostic delay causes harm.- Evaluate high-frequency presenting problems - move systematically through fever, breathing difficulty, vomiting, abdominal pain, seizure, syncope, edema, rash, limp, pallor, bleeding, and developmental concerns.- Manage newborn and infant disease - distinguish normal transition from neonatal infection, congenital heart disease, feeding dysfunction, prematurity-related complications, and inherited metabolic disease.- Navigate pediatric subspecialty care - connect cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, nephrology, endocrinology, hematology, infectious disease, immunology, neurology, dermatology, and orthopedics to bedside decisions.- Address adolescent and behavioral health - integrate confidentiality, reproductive care, suicide-risk assessment, eating disorders, substance use, school concerns, and developing autonomy.- Coordinate complex and longitudinal care - manage technology dependence, polypharmacy, palliative needs, ethical decisions, rehabilitation, and transition to adult services.Choose this textbook to strengthen the clinical reasoning that protects children from first presentation through definitive care.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798187108848
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.07.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published