Product Description

The Harriet Lane Handbook represents over 50 years of expert guidance for pediatric residents and all those who treat children. This irreplaceable manual is your everyday reference for fast, accurate bedside consultation. The book's trademark formulary will be regularly updated online, to keep you absolutely current. New or revised chapters on palliative care, toxicology, dermatology, and growth and nutrition help you streamline diagnosis and treatment. Still convenient and pocket-sized, this latest edition includes Expert Consult functionality, so you can access the complete contents of the book online, fully searchable.

• Remains a convenient, pocket-sized reference, so you can carry a wealth of information with you.
  
• Includes step-by-step emergency management protocols, growth charts, and more to help you streamline diagnosis and treatment.
  
• Organized in a modified outline format so you can find information quickly and easily, even in the most demanding circumstances.

• Provides a regularly updated trademark formulary online to help you get the latest on pediatric drugs and dosages.
  
• Adds a new palliative care chapter for more well-rounded guidance.
  
• Includes unprecedented access to the complete contents of the book online, completely searchable, with downloadable images.
  
• Incorporates the latest treatment and management recommendations, immunization guidelines, procedures, and therapeutic guidelines so you can stay completely up to date.
  
• Revises the toxicology and the growth and nutrition chapters to be even more user-friendly and practical.
  
• Reorganizes the dermatology chapter to make information even easier to find.

Web site access will be provided until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9043 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1184 pages

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Customer Reviews

Perfect for med students
I really liked how concise it is on the management of diverse pediatric pathologies, specially the algorithms. I am a med student and I found it very useful during my internship in pediatrics, specially in the emergency department. The section with the drugs and all the tips about them (dosage, adverse effects, when not to use it, etc) are really helpful for med students who won't specialise in this area and who want to have a general knowledge on this subject.
It's very helpful for a review on the area, not as a book for the first study of this subject.

Doesn't come in with PDA software
My last version of Harriet Lane is from 2004 (blue cover). I wanted to get an updated copy since last year and held out until this year knowing that the new edition would be released in 2008. What a long wait. And when the book was finally released it DOES NOT contain a PDA version for my palm. This is ridiculous considering that the 2006 version is sold with PDA file. Instead you must purchase the PDA version separately. What a ripoff. I should have bought the earlier version.

The book however, does come with a code to access an online version of the text....something I hardly find useful and will never use.

Perfec t gift for graduating medical student
The Harriet Lane Handbook has long been a trusted resource for pediatric residents and a good quick reference for practicing pediatricians. Even in this day of internet access, having a pocket manual for quick access is valuable. The book is updated by the residents at John's Hopkins every couple of years and therefore remains current. It contains concise information on development, immunology, infectious diseases, drug doses, nutrition, lab values, etc etc.