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Table Of Content | VOLUME 1 PART I The Field of Pediatrics 1 OVERVIEW OF PEDIATRICS 2 QUALITY AND SAFETY IN HEALTHCARE FOR CHILDREN 3 ETHICS IN PEDIATRIC CARE 4 CULTURAL ISSUES IN PEDIATRIC CARE 5 MAXIMIZING CHILDREN&aposS HEALTH: ?SCREENING, ANTICIPATORY GUIDANCE, AND COUNSELING PART II Growth, Development, and Behavior 6 OVERVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF ?VARIABILITY 7 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT: DOMAINS AND THEORIES 8 ASSESSMENT OF FETAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT 9 THE NEWBORN 10 THE FIRST YEAR 11 THE SECOND YEAR 12 THE PRESCHOOL YEARS 13 MIDDLE CHILDHOOD 14 ADOLESCENCE 15 ASSESSMENT OF GROWTH 16 DEVELOPMENTAL-BEHAVIORAL SCREENING AND SURVEILLANCE 17 CHILDCARE: HOW PEDIATRICIANS CAN SUPPORT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 18 LOSS, SEPARATION, AND BEREAVEMENT 19 SLEEP MEDICINE PART III Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders 20 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVIEWING 21 PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS 22 SOMATIC SYMPTOM AND RELATED DISORDERS 23 RUMINATION AND PICA 24 MOTOR DISORDERS AND HABITS 25 ANXIETY DISORDERS 26 MOOD DISORDERS 27 SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE 28 EATING DISORDERS 29 DISRUPTIVE, IMPULSE-CONTROL, AND CONDUCT DISORDERS 30 AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER 31 CHILDHOOD PSYCHOSES PART IV Learning Disorders 32 NEURODEVELOPMENTAL FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION IN THE SCHOOL-AGE CHILD 33 ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER 34 DYSLEXIA 35 LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 36 INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY PART V Children with Special Needs 37 ADOPTION 38 FOSTER AND KINSHIP CARE 39 IMPACT OF VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN 40 ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN 41 FAILURE TO THRIVE 42 CHRONIC ILLNESS IN CHILDHOOD 43 PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE PART VI Nutrition 44 NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS 45 FEEDING HEALTHY INFANTS, CHILDREN, ?AND ADOLESCENTS 46 NUTRITION, FOOD SECURITY, AND HEALTH 47 OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY 48 VITAMIN A DEFICIENCIES AND EXCESS 49 VITAMIN B COMPLEX DEFICIENCIES AND EXCESS 50 VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID) 51 RICKETS AND HYPERVITAMINOSIS D 52 VITAMIN E DEFICIENCY 53 VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY 54 MICRONUTRIENT MINERAL DEFICIENCIES PART VII Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders 55 ELECTROLYTE AND ACID-BASE DISORDERS 56 MAINTENANCE AND REPLACEMENT THERAPY 57 DEFICIT THERAPY 58 FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE TREATMENT OF SPECIFIC DISORDERS PART VIII Pediatric Drug Therapy 59 PEDIATRIC PHARMACOGENETICS, PHARMACOGENOMICS, AND PHARMACOPROTEOMICS 60 PRINCIPLES OF DRUG THERAPY 61 ANESTHESIA, PERIOPERATIVE CARE, AND SEDATION 62 PEDIATRIC PAIN MANAGEMENT 63 POISONING 64 COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES AND INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE PART IX The Acutely Ill Child 65 EVALUATION OF THE SICK CHILD IN THE OFFICE AND CLINIC 66 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN 67 PEDIATRIC EMERGENCIES AND RESUSCITATION 68 NEUROLOGIC EMERGENCIES AND STABILIZATION 69 SYNCOPE 70 SHOCK 71 RESPIRATORY DISTRESS AND FAILURE 72 ACUTE CARE OF THE VICTIM OF MULTIPLE TRAUMA 73 ALTITUDE-ASSOCIATED ILLNESS IN CHILDREN (ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS) 74 DROWNING AND SUBMERSION INJURY 75 BURN INJURIES 76 COLD INJURIES PART X Human Genetics 77 INTEGRATION OF GENETICS INTO PEDIATRIC PRACTICE 78 THE GENETIC APPROACH IN PEDIATRIC MEDICINE 79 THE HUMAN GENOME 80 PATTERNS OF GENETIC TRANSMISSION 81 CYTOGENETICS 82 GENETICS OF COMMON DISORDERS 83 GENETIC APPROACHES TO RARE AND UNDIAGNOSED DISEASES PART XI Metabolic Disorders 84 AN APPROACH TO INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM 85 DEFECTS IN METABOLISM OF AMINO ACIDS 86 DEFECTS IN METABOLISM OF LIPIDS 87 DEFECTS IN METABOLISM OF CARBOHYDRATES 88 MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSES 89 DISORDERS OF PURINE AND PYRIMIDINE METABOLISM 90 HUTCHINSON-GILFORD PROGERIA SYNDROME 91 THE PORPHYRIAS 92 HYPOGLYCEMIA PART XII The Fetus and the Neonatal Infant 93 OVERVIEW OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY 94 THE NEWBORN INFANT 95 HIGH-RISK PREGNANCIES 96 THE FETUS 97 THE HIGH-RISK INFANT 98 CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF DISEASES IN THE NEWBORN PERIOD 99 NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS 100 DELIVERY ROOM EMERGENCIES 101 RESPIRATORY TRACT DISORDERS 102 DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISORDERS 103 BLOOD DISORDERS 104 GENITOURINARY SYSTEM 105 THE UMBILICUS 106 METABOLIC DISTURBANCES 107 THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM 108 DYSMORPHOLOGY 109 INFECTIONS OF THE NEONATAL INFANT PART XIII Adolescent Medicine 110 ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT 111 THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH PROBLEMS 112 DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE TO ADOLESCENTS 113 VIOLENT BEHAVIOR 114 SUBSTANCE ABUSE 115 THE BREAST 116 MENSTRUAL PROBLEMS 117 CONTRACEPTION 118 ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY 119 ADOLESCENT RAPE 120 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS 121 CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME Immunology Section 1 EVALUATION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM 122 EVALUATION OF SUSPECTED IMMUNODEFICIENCY Section 2 THE T-, B-, AND NK-CELL SYSTEMS 123 T LYMPHOCYTES, B LYMPHOCYTES, AND NATURAL KILLER CELLS 124 PRIMARY DEFECTS OF ANTIBODY PRODUCTION 125 PRIMARY DEFECTS OF CELLULAR ? IMMUNITY 126 PRIMARY COMBINED ANTIBODY AND CELLULAR IMMUNODEFICIENCIES Section 3 THE PHAGOCYTIC SYSTEM 127 NEUTROPHILS 128 MONOCYTES, MACROPHAGES, AND DENDRITIC CELLS 129 EOSINOPHILS 130 DISORDERS OF PHAGOCYTE FUNCTION 131 LEUKOPENIA 132 LEUKOCYTOSIS Section 4 THE COMPLEMENT SYSTEM 133 THE COMPLEMENT SYSTEM 134 DISORDERS OF THE COMPLEMENT SYSTEM Section 5 HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION 135 PRINCIPLES AND CLINICAL INDICATIONS OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION 136 HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FROM ALTERNATIVE SOURCES AND DONORS 137 GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE, REJECTION, AND VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE 138 INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS OF ?HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION 139 LATE EFFECTS OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION PART XV Allergic Disorders 140 ALLERGY AND THE IMMUNOLOGIC BASIS OF ATOPIC DISEASE 141 DIAGNOSIS OF ALLERGIC DISEASE 142 PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT OF ALLERGIC DISEASE 143 ALLERGIC RHINITIS 144 CHILDHOOD ASTHMA 145 ATOPIC DERMATITIS (ATOPIC ECZEMA) 146 INSECT ALLERGY 147 OCULAR ALLERGIES 148 URTICARIA (HIVES) AND ANGIOEDEMA 149 ANAPHYLAXIS 150 SERUM SICKNESS 151 FOOD ALLERGY AND ADVERSE REACTIONS TO FOODS 152 ADVERSE REACTIONS TO DRUGS Rheumatic Diseases of Childhood 153 EVALUATION OF SUSPECTED RHEUMATIC DISEASE 154 TREATMENT OF RHEUMATIC DISEASES 155 JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS 156 ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AND OTHER SPONDYLOARTHRITIDES 157 REACTIVE AND POSTINFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS 158 SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS 159 JUVENILE DERMATOMYOSITIS 160 SCLERODERMA AND RAYNAUD PHENOMENON 161 BEHÇET DISEASE 162 SJÖGREN SYNDROME 163 HEREDITARY PERIODIC FEVER SYNDROMES AND OTHER SYSTEMIC AUTOINFLAMMATORY DISEASES 164 AMYLOIDOSIS 165 SARCOIDOSIS 166 KAWASAKI DISEASE 167 VASCULITIS SYNDROMES 168 MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN SYNDROMES 169 MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH ARTHRITIS PART XVII Infectious Diseases Section 1 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 170 DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY 171 THE MICROBIOME AND PEDIATRIC HEALTH Section 2 PREVENTIVE MEASURES 172 IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES 173 INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL 174 CHILDCARE AND COMMUNICABLE ? DISEASES 175 HEALTH ADVICE FOR CHILDREN TRAVELING INTERNATIONALLY 176 FEVER 177 FEVER WITHOUT A FOCUS 178 INFECTIONS IN IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PERSONS 179 INFECTION ASSOCIATED WITH MEDICAL DEVICES Section 3 ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY 180 PRINCIPLES OF ANTIBACTERIAL THERAPY Section 4 GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS 181 STAPHYLOCOCCUS |
Publish Date | 22 Apr 2015 |