The most practical, up-to-date, and well-referenced guide to the diagnosis and treatment of children--from birth to adolescence
A Doody's Core Title for 2021!
Following the Current outline format to make it super easy for you to find the answers you need, this comprehensive, clinically focused guide delivers evidence-based information on the pediatric medical conditions most often encountered in daily clinical practice.
Complete with an invaluable guide to normal laboratory values and 600 photos and illustrations, CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics offers succinct, authoritative overviews of important pediatric health concerns, such as childhood nutrition and eating disorders; substance abuse; psychiatric disorders; child abuse; oral medicine and dentistry; immunization; and emergencies and injuries. The authors provide detailed descriptions of diseases as well as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and everything is presented in the time-saving LANGE CURRENT style: Problem, Essentials of Diagnosis, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis.
About the Author: William W. Hay, Jr., MD, is Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Neonatology and the Division of Perinatal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital.
Myron J. Levin, MD, is Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital.
Mark J. Abzug, MD, is Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital.
Maya Bunik, MD, is Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of General Academic Pediatrics, Director of the Child Health Clinic, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado.
