Product Description

The Classic On-the-Go Guide to Pediatric Practice--Now More Current and Essential Than Ever!

A Doody's Core Title!

CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics has long been the go-to guide for students, residents, and practitioners looking for concise, reliable, and up-to-date information. It continues to provide succinct, up-to-date, and clinically relevant coverage of how to assess and treat common disorders in children, from eating disorders and cardiovascular diseases to STDs.

Features:

• Easy-to-follow LANGE CURRENT outline format: Problem, Essentials of Diagnosis and Typical Features, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis
• Organized by general topics such as care of the newborn and community pediatrics, as well as by organ system and specific disease/problems
• "Essentials of Diagnosis and Typical Features" provide instant guidance on identifying both common and rare problems
• Accessible overviews of important pediatric health concerns, including substance abuse, psychiatric disorders, child abuse and neglect, normal childhood nutrition and its disorders, and emergencies and injuries
• NEW to this edition: chapter on Sport Medicine (a key area of pediatrics for which students and residents state they need more training--ACGME survey), completely reorganized section on Infectious Diseases reflecting the most recent clinical perspectives, expanded section on lab and reference values

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1340 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1324 pages

From the Back Cover
A well-written, up-to-date, general pediatric text ... a very useful reference.
--Emergency and Office Pediatrics*

Up-to-date, accurate information in a clear and concise form ... A great value and a solid buy for both in the office and in the hospital.
--online reader review**

All you want and need to know in your pediatrics rotation ... a must-have for good medical students with lots to learn and too little time .
--online reader review**

Best source for answers to questions arising in the day-to-day practice of pediatrics
*Current clinical information on the ambulatory and inpatient care of children, from birth through infancy and adolescence
*New chapter on Information Technology in Pediatric Practice
*New section on Bioterrorism in chapter on Emergencies & Injuries
*Updated approach to HIV
*Thoroughly revised, with substantial updates to these chapters: The Newborn Infant, Child Development & Behavior, Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders & Psychosocial Aspects of Pediatrics, Ambulatory & Community Pediatrics, Immunization, Normal Childhood Nutrition & Its Disorders, Emergencies & Injuries, Eye, Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Genetics & Dysmorphology, and HIV Infection

* Of the 13th edition
** Of the 15th edition

About the Author

William W. Hay, Jr., MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics Section in Neonatalogy and the Division of Perinatal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children’s Hospital, Denver.

Myron J. Levin, MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Denver

Judith M. Sondheimer, MD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Denver

Robin R. Deterding, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Denver

Customer Reviews

Children won't seem a problem with this book
Everyone recommended big fat books of pediatrics, with lots of words and little answers. But this book is all you want and need to know about in your pediatrics rotations. With diagnostic essentials, getting through diseases just gets a lot easier, and with therapeutical answers, it just builds good doctors. I specially liked the chapter on antimicrobials and vaccines, so essential in pediatric care. Definitely a must have for a good medical student with lot to learn and too little time (at the end, that's what medicine is all about). All my medschool classmates just wanted to have my book.

good for interns
This was my reference of choice when I was an intern at a busy major children's hospital. It's comprehensive, not too heavy to lug around, gives you the important details and gives you references as to where to go next for further reading. It's not always enough information when it comes to specific cases. I usually went to UpToDate, PedsinReview or lit searches at that point. I think this is a solid book to have early in your career because it lets you cover the most relevant material in a readable manner. As a second year, I don't go back to Currents as much and mostly go with articles.

An Excellent hands on manual
This book is a great combination of up to date, accurate information in a clear and concise form. It gives you all of the details you need to make a sound diagnosis and is still easily readible. A great value and a solid buy for both in the office and the hospital.