Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatric Emergency Medicine

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THIS APP-BOOK for Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatric Emergency Medicine includes unique functions such as:

• A powerful search
• Bookmarks
• Complete set of medical calculators; Body Mass Index, Peak Expiratory Flows, Dehydration Correction Calculator and more
• Highlighting
• High resolution pictures
• History
• Notes and picture notes

About this title:

Deliver faster diagnosis, more effective treatments, and improved outcomes with this concise guide to pediatric emergency medicine

• Provides immediate access to life-saving and routine information through consistent chapter outlines
• Begins with a section on emergency procedures and child-safety issues
• Presents information the way an emergency medicine provider thinks and acts: by symptomatic presentation, including cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, shock, fever, abdominal pain, seizures, trauma
• Details evaluation and management of disorders routinely seen in Pediatric Emergency Medicine such as foreign bodies, respiratory infections, asthma, heart defects, dehydration, rashes, sickle-cell disease, sports-injuries and more
• Enhanced by numerous tables, and more than 400 illustrations and photographs to clarify concepts and improve understanding
• Valuable to all practitioners of emergency medicine, from prehospital care providers to nurses and physicians
• Designed for use in a busy, fast-paced emergency department
• Focuses on the practical aspects of emergency care
• Covers a wide spectrum of pediatric conditions

Authors: Roger Humphries, Maria Stephan, C. Keith Stone, Dorian Drigalla