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Presents a collection of pediatric hospital medicine cases that address clinical conundrums or issues and are to be used as teaching cases of clinical reasoning. Other cases will use inpatient care as a launching point for complex ethical dilemmas or system-based care.

Preventing Childhood Obesity in Early Care and Education is the new set of national standards describing evidence-based best practices in nutrition, physical activity, and screen time, for early care and education programs. The standards are for all types of early care and education settings - centres and family child care homes.programs.

Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this popular AAP policy manual helps you identify, prevent, and treat pediatric environmental health problems. From asbestos to radiation, ultraviolet rays, pesticides, asthma, lead, tobacco, and child care and school environments - current information on an exhaustive range of environmental health issues is included.

This essential resource provides key background information and recommendations for themes critical to healthy child development along with well-child supervision standards for 31 age-based visitsfrom Newborn through 21 Years.What's in the Bright Futures Guidelines, Fourth Edition?Twelve health promotion themes addressing lifelong health for families and communities NEW family support health for children and youth with special health care needs NEW healthy development mental health healthy weight healthy nutrition physical activity oral health healthy adolescent development healthy and safe use of social media NEW safety and injury prevention 31 age-based health supervision visitsNewborn to 21 Years All the information and guidance that's needed to give children optimal health outcomes -Context -Health Supervision -History -Surveillance of Development -Review of Systems -Observation of Parent-Child Interaction -Physical Examination -Medical Screening -Immunizations -Anticipatory Guidance What's NEW in the 4th Edition?Builds upon previous editions with new and updated content that reflects the latest research. Incorporates evidence-driven recommendations.Includes three new health promotion themes: -Promoting Lifelong Health for Families and Communities -Promoting Health for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs -Promoting the Healthy and Safe Use of Social MediaIncludes new screen time recommendationsProvides greater focus on lifelong physical and mental health -Weaves social determinants of health throughout the Visits, allowing health care professionals to consider social factors like food insecurity, violence, and drug use that may affect a child's and family's health -Features updated Milestones of Development and Developmental Surveillance questionsProvides new clinical content that informs health care professionals about the latest recommendations and provides guidance on how to implement them in practice: -Maternal depression screening, Safe sleep, Iron supplementation in breast fed infants, Fluoride varnish, Dyslipidemia blood screeningIncludes updates to several Adolescent screeningsWith Bright Futures, health care professionals can accomplish 4 tasks in 18 minutes! Disease detection Disease prevention Health promotion Anticipatory guidanceWhat is Bright Futures? A set of theory-based, evidence-driven, and systems-oriented principles, strategies, and tools that health care professionals can use to improve the health and well-being of children through culturally appropriate interventions. Bright Futures addresses the current and emerging health promotion needs of families, clinical practices, communities, health systems, and policymakers. The Bright Futures Guidelines are the blueprint for health supervision visits for all children. Bright Futures is the health promotion and disease prevention part of the patient-centered medical home. Who can use Bright Futures? Child health professionals and practice staff who directly provide primary care Parents and youth who participate in well-child visits Public Health Professionals Policymakers Pediatric Educators MD Residents

Contains AAP clinical practice guidelines, policy statements, and clinical reports of interest to physicians who care for adolescents. Sections include: the unique needs of adolescents; caring for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth; contraception and gynecology; media use' and mental health.

Contains AAP clinical practice guidelines, policy statements, clinical reports, and technical reports related to the use of medications in the pediatric population. It is designed to be a handy reference to AAP policies and recommended best practices.

Contains an AAP clinical practice guideline, policy statements, clinical reports, and technical reports related to the prevention of injuries in and violence toward the pediatric population.

Completely revised and updated, Reaching Teens provides communications strategies to effectively engage with today's teenagers. This groundbreaking multimedia resource combines video and text to show how recognising, reinforcing, and building on inherent strengths supports positive youth development.

Current objective assessments of ADHD are of limited use in clarifying a diagnosis. This book offers an evidence-based approach to evaluating children for ADHD. It also addresses treatment challenges, including prescribing practices for medications, monitoring for medication adherence, side-effects, dosing, and medication adjustments.

Provides expert help with the myriad ear, nose, and throat disorders. From adenopathy to ankyloglossia, ear infection to epistaxis, and from stridor to speech disorders, look here for the state of the art across the length and breadth of pediatric ENT disorders.

Enhance your knowledge of neonatal-perinatal medicine and/or study for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine board certification or recertification with this new study guide from the editors of NeoReviews. This new guide includes more than 1,200 questions; each question is followed by a short explanation of the answer.

Provides primary care pediatricians and other professionals who care for children comprehensive coverage of both common and rare congenital and acquired pediatric conditions. The book offers guidance on when to treat and when to wait, on the timing of corrective surgeries in pediatric patients, and on surgical strategies and complications.

This new resource was created as a companion to Berkowitz's Pediatrics: A Primary Care Approach, 6th edition. It contains the case study questions and resolutions found in each of the 157 chapters of the main text as well as answers to the case study questions.

The reference of choice for pediatricians, residents and medical students, the newly revised and expanded sixth edition provides clear, practice-oriented guidance on the core knowledge in pediatrics. It provides comprehensive coverage of hundreds of topics ranging from temper tantrums and toilet training to adolescent depression and suicide.

Provides child care directors, teachers, and caregivers with essential information on managing emotional and behavioural issues in group care settings. Topics covered include social-emotional development, biting, napping difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder, gender development, self-stimulation behaviours, and more.

More pediatricians and allied health professionals are finding themselves on the front lines identifying depression and suicide risk. This collection provides evidence-based guidelines for identification, assessment, treatment and ongoing management of adolescent depression and outlines the importance of screening teens.

This new compendium is your source for trustworthy recommendations on quality care of children and adolescents with mental health issues. It features one new AAP clinical practice guideline on ADHD and 32 AAP policy statements and clinical and technical reports on mental health.

Thoroughly revised and expanded, this fourth edition offers a practical, objective, evidence-based guide to the medical diagnosis and management of child abuse. Written and edited by an array of the world's leading experts on child abuse and neglect, this resource clearly explains the signs, symptoms, and injuries of the abused child.

Covers practical approaches to caring for healthy and high-risk infants. The book covers maternal and fetal health, care of the newborn after delivery, breastfeeding, follow-up care, congenital anomalies, the newborn with a heart murmur or cyanosis, neurologic findings, primary care issues relating to intensive care, and developmental outcomes.

The ethical issues that arise in pediatrics vary drastically from those in other clinical settings because young children cannot make decisions for themselves. This essential collection presents a series of cases that highlight ethical dilemmas that arise in pediatrics.

Takes a practical approach to treating the child with gastrointestinal issues in the pediatric setting. Chapters focus on evaluation and management, with an emphasis on medical decision-making and supported by graded levels of evidence, with a goal of integrating evidence-based medicine in daily care.

Physicians play a critical role in identifying, evaluating, and treating children with a diagnosis of suspected or confirmed child maltreatment. This book provides practical and essential evidence-based guidelines and AAP references for evaluating and treating sentinel injuries, physical abuse, and sexual abuse.

This best-selling resource guides health care professionals through the preparticipation physical evaluation PPE process for young athletes from middle school through college. Included are recommendations on PPE timing, setting, and structure; medical history questions; and how to determine participation clearance.

Completely updated, this popular pocket guide provides commonly used reference ranges and values spanning birth through adolescence; plus, data needed for treatment of preterm and other newborns. This resource helps reduce search time for reference ranges and other critical values to optimize patient assessment and treatment.

Highlights the fundamental aspects of contraception with an overview of contraceptive methods and epidemiology; provides up-to-date guidance on medical eligibility criteria; and reviews critical policy advances supporting contraceptive access.

Provides the latest diagnostic and treatment recommendations for a wide range of clinical presentations, with discussion of differential diagnoses. To clarify points of diagnosis, 220 colour images, illustrations, and scans are included.

Contains guidelines on the development and evaluation of the health and safety of children in early care and education settings. This guide features 10 chapters of more than 650 standards and dozens of appendices with valuable supplemental information, forms, and tools.

Provides primary care clinicians with a framework for addressing paediatric mental health problems in the primary care practice. The book offers surveillance and screening tools to identify early signs and symptoms of mental health disorders and obtain evidence-based interventions to care for children and adolescents with mental health issues.

Helps teachers and caregivers address the challenges of caring for children with chronic health conditions and special health care needs in child care and school settings. The health issues covered include chronic illnesses, acute situations, and selected developmental and behavioural problems, with a special emphasis on children with special health care needs.

Presents a clinical framework for understanding the impact of toxic stress and both adverse and affiliative childhood experiences on development. This book makes a compelling case that many diseases of adulthood are not adult-onset, but rather adult-manifest, based on genetic and epigenetic consequences from early childhood experiences.