Product Overview
Evaluate diverse pediatric complaints efficiently and accurately with this best-selling resource from the American Academy of Pediatrics!
This convenient handbook helps you effectively evaluate patient complaints, and develop sound differential diagnoses and management strategies.
This practice-focused resource provides must-know information and expert advice for confidently addressing more than 80 diagnostic challenges.
Discover all the pediatric issues you're most likely to see
Look here for the essentials on everything from abdominal, back, and chest pain...to fever, fatigue, headache, and heart murmurs...to rash, red eye, sleep disturbances, and speech and language concerns...plus much more. Coverage also extends to evaluation of mental health symptoms, including anxiety, depression, disruptive behavior, emotional disturbance, inattention and impulsivity, and self-harm.
Some 200 full-color images complement the concise text!
Work through patient problems efficiently and systematically
Designed to work the way you do, Signs and Symptoms in Pediatrics guides you through every step in the diagnostic decision-making process. Information on each complaint is presented in the order in which you need to consider it as your evaluation proceeds.
Contents include:
Abdominal Pain
Alopecia and Hair Shaft Anomalies
Amenorrhea
Anemia and Pallor
Anxiety
Back Pain
Cardiac Arrhythmias
Chest Pain
Constipation
Cough
Cyanosis
Depression
Diarrhea and Steatorrhea
Disruptive Behavior and Aggression
Dizziness and Vertigo
Dysmenorrhea
Dysphagia
Dyspnea
Dyuria
Edema
Epistaxis
Extremity Pain
Facial Dysmorphism
Failure to Thrive: Pediatric Undernutrition
Family Dysfunction
Fatigue and Weakness
Fever
Fever of Unknown Origin
Foot and Leg Problems
Gastrointestinal Hemmorhage
Gender Expression and Identity Issues
Headache
Hearing Loss
Heart Murmurs
Hematuria
Hemoptysis
High Blood Pressure
Hypotonia
Inattention and Impulsivity
Irritability and Fussiness
Jaundice
Joint Pain
Limping
Lymphadenopathy
Macrocephaly
Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Microcephaly
Odor
Petechiae and Purpura
Polyuria
Proteinuria
Pruritus
Puberty: Normal and Abnormal
Rash
Recurrent Infections
Red Eye/Pink Eye
School Absenteeism and School Refusal
Scrotal Swelling and Pain
Self-harm
Self-stimulating Behaviors
Short Stature
Sleep Disturbances
Speech and Language Concerns
Splenomegaly
Stridor
Subsance Use
Syncope
Temper Tantrums and Breath-holding Spells
Tics
Torticollis
Vaginal Bleeding
Vaginal Discharge
Vomiting
Weight Loss
Wheeling
And more!
Red eye/pink eye
Sleep disturbances
Speech and language concerns
Vomiting
Wheezing
And more!
This convenient handbook helps you effectively evaluate patient complaints, and develop sound differential diagnoses and management strategies.
This practice-focused resource provides must-know information and expert advice for confidently addressing more than 80 diagnostic challenges.
Discover all the pediatric issues you're most likely to see
Look here for the essentials on everything from abdominal, back, and chest pain...to fever, fatigue, headache, and heart murmurs...to rash, red eye, sleep disturbances, and speech and language concerns...plus much more. Coverage also extends to evaluation of mental health symptoms, including anxiety, depression, disruptive behavior, emotional disturbance, inattention and impulsivity, and self-harm.
Some 200 full-color images complement the concise text!
Work through patient problems efficiently and systematically
Designed to work the way you do, Signs and Symptoms in Pediatrics guides you through every step in the diagnostic decision-making process. Information on each complaint is presented in the order in which you need to consider it as your evaluation proceeds.
- Pathophysiology and epidemiology
- History
- Physical examination
- Laboratory tests
- Imaging studies
- Approaches to initial management
- Ongoing care and follow-up
- Suggestions on when to refer or admit
- Presenting complaints are organized alphabetically for speedy look up.
- Easy-to-follow algorithms simplify clinical decision-making
- At-a-glance charts and data tables
- Text boxes highlighting potential differential diagnoses
Contents include:
Abdominal Pain
Alopecia and Hair Shaft Anomalies
Amenorrhea
Anemia and Pallor
Anxiety
Back Pain
Cardiac Arrhythmias
Chest Pain
Constipation
Cough
Cyanosis
Depression
Diarrhea and Steatorrhea
Disruptive Behavior and Aggression
Dizziness and Vertigo
Dysmenorrhea
Dysphagia
Dyspnea
Dyuria
Edema
Epistaxis
Extremity Pain
Facial Dysmorphism
Failure to Thrive: Pediatric Undernutrition
Family Dysfunction
Fatigue and Weakness
Fever
Fever of Unknown Origin
Foot and Leg Problems
Gastrointestinal Hemmorhage
Gender Expression and Identity Issues
Headache
Hearing Loss
Heart Murmurs
Hematuria
Hemoptysis
High Blood Pressure
Hypotonia
Inattention and Impulsivity
Irritability and Fussiness
Jaundice
Joint Pain
Limping
Lymphadenopathy
Macrocephaly
Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Microcephaly
Odor
Petechiae and Purpura
Polyuria
Proteinuria
Pruritus
Puberty: Normal and Abnormal
Rash
Recurrent Infections
Red Eye/Pink Eye
School Absenteeism and School Refusal
Scrotal Swelling and Pain
Self-harm
Self-stimulating Behaviors
Short Stature
Sleep Disturbances
Speech and Language Concerns
Splenomegaly
Stridor
Subsance Use
Syncope
Temper Tantrums and Breath-holding Spells
Tics
Torticollis
Vaginal Bleeding
Vaginal Discharge
Vomiting
Weight Loss
Wheeling
And more!
Red eye/pink eye
Sleep disturbances
Speech and language concerns
Vomiting
Wheezing
And more!
