Berman's Pediatric Decision Making E-Book

Gwendolyn Kerby, Ann-Christine Nyquist, Simon Hambidge, Lalit Bajaj

Description

Berman’s Pediatric Decision Making uses an algorithmic, structured approach to lead you to the right diagnosis and treatment every time. Drs. Lalit Baja, Simon Hambidge, Ann-Christine Nyquist, and Gwendolyn Kerby use evidence-based research and flow charts for each presenting complaint or specific disorder to provide quick access to the information you need for effective decision making. With updated drug tables and revised algorithms, this streamlined new edition makes it even easier for you to diagnose and manage common clinical problems from infancy through adolescence.

• Rapidly access guidance on diagnosis and management from algorithms for each clinical disorder.
• Treat the full range of diseases and disorders with comprehensive coverage of diagnosis, assessment of severity, and clinical management.

Choose the best treatment for each case thanks to indications for surgical interventions as well as expensive diagnostic procedures

• Access the fully searchable contents online at www.expertconsult.com.
• Stay current on recent developments and make effective decisions for movement disorders, physical abuse in children, sexual abuse in children, eating disorders, ADHD, and other hot topics.
• Find answers quickly and easily with a new table of contents organized into two sections—Presenting Complaints and Specific Disorders—that reduces the need to flip between chapters.
• Tap into the diverse perspectives of expert authors from all over the country.
• Get only the information you need in the streamlined new edition with shorter, more user-friendly flow diagrams and fewer specialized chapters.

Sujets

• Medical
• Médecine
• Pediatrics

Informations

• Publié par: Mosby
• Date de parution: 06 juillet 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780323087025
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

Berman’s Pediatric Decision Making
Fifth Edition

Lalit Bajaj, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Research Director, Section of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado

Simon J. Hambidge, MD, PhD
Director of General Pediatrics, Denver Health, Denver; Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado

Gwendolyn Kerby, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Medical Director, Pulmonary Clinic, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado

Ann-Christine Nyquist, MD, MSPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Dean, Diversity and Inclusion, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Associate Professor, Community and Behavioral Health, Colorado School of Public Health; Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
Mosby
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Berman’s pediatric decision making / [edited by] Lalit Bajaj . . . [et al.]. -- 5th ed.
p. ; cm.
Pediatric decision making
Rev. ed. of: Pediatric decision making / Stephen Berman. 4th ed. c2003.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-323-05405-8 (pbk.)
1. Pediatrics -- Decision making. I. Bajaj, Lalit. II. Berman, Stephen. III. Berman, Stephen. Pediatric decision making. IV. Title: Pediatric decision making.
[DNLM: 1. Pediatrics. 2. Decision Making. 3. Diagnosis. WS 200]
RJ47.B47 2011
618.92 -- dc23
2011018488
Editor: Judith Fletcher
Developmental Editor: Joanie Milnes
Editorial Assistant: Jackie Wechsler
Publishing Services Manager: Anne Altepeter
Senior Project Manager: Doug Turner
Designer: Steven Stave
Printed in the United States of America
Last digit is the print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Preface
The fifth edition of Pediatric Decision Making marks a major editorial transition for this ground-breaking textbook of algorithms. I turn the editorial duties over to four outstanding clinicians for this edition, the first to be published in the twenty-first century. I have worked closely with these pediatricians for many years (and with some since residency), and as their careers have matured I have grown to greatly admire and respect their knowledge, clinical skills, and teaching abilities. I am sure that this and future editions will be creative and innovative, providing clinicians with a valuable resource to help them provide the very best care for children.
As a pediatrician for 39 years, I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to create and edit this book. I have a career and work that I love and a wonderful supportive family—my wife, Elaine, and sons, Seth and Ben. As I reflect on why pediatrics has been so personally fulfilling and meaningful, I realize the importance of having strong personal relationships with patients and their families. These relationships take time to mature. Caring for children continuously over a long time, referred to as “continuity of care,” allows pediatricians to share many intense moments of sorrow and joy with our patients and their families.
As my clinical experience and expertise increased over the years, my approach to patients and their families began to change. I realized the need to balance both art and science in caring for children. While science strives to be as objective as possible, art remains intuitive. While science relies on technology, art relies on communication and empathy. While the art of medicine recognizes the value of helping, the science of medicine strives to find cures. Art touches people by sharing feelings and emotion. Art builds an intangible bridge that connects people and makes us aware of the shared elements of the human existence. The art of pediatric practice helps a dying patient live every day to the fullest, enjoying life by being with loved ones. Science requires a thorough understanding of the scientific method and how observations generate hypotheses that can be tested by experiments or trials. Science is about defining, counting, measuring, and then analyzing. Practicing pediatrics is about using science and technology in conjunction with the art of pediatric care to prevent disease, save lives, heal children, and help families cope.
In a textbook of algorithms, it is difficult to demonstrate how to communicate with patients and families, and thus to teach “the art of pediatrics.” Therefore, I tried to do this with a different type of book, entitled Getting it Right for Children: Stories of Pediatric Care and Advocacy, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. I learned that successful advocacy involves storytelling that reaches out and touches readers combined with data that provide the evidence needed to make good policy decisions.
While I could not incorporate as much of the art of pediatrics into Pediatric Decision Making as I would have liked, I hope that this next generation of editors will have more success. I am sure that they will integrate the rapid advances in our understanding of genetics, pathophysiology and treatment of disease, and technology into this book in ways that will be understandable and useful to clinicians. I thank them for accepting this role and appreciate the opportunity I have to continue to work with them and other members of our Department of Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital on a regular basis.

Stephen Berman, MD
Contributors

Mark J. Abzug, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital, Aurora, Colorado

Edythe Albano, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado; Clinical Director Oncology, The Children’s Hospital, Aurora, Colorado

Nimisha Amin, MD, Pediatric Nephrologist, Private Practice, Bakersfield, California

Mark E. Anderson, MD, Staff Physician and Team Leader, Kid’s Care Clinic at Denver Health Medical Center; Director and PI, Rocky Mountain Region Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU); Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado

Marsha S. Anderson, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital, Aurora, Colorado

Susan D. Apkon, MD, Director, Rehabilitation Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Jennifer Armstrong-Wells, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Section of Neurology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado; Assistant Adjunct Professor, Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California

Daniel Arndt, MD, MA, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Michigan State University School of Medicine; Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Program, DeVos Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Donald H. Arnold, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Cen