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The Science of Paediatrics

The Science of Paediatrics

SYMPTOM-BASED DIAGNOSIS IN PEDIATRICS

SYMPTOM-BASED DIAGNOSIS IN PEDIATRICS

NELSON TEXTBOOK PEDIATRICS 20E 2vol set

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After more than 75 years, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics remains your indispensable source for definitive, state-of-the-art answers on every aspect of pediatric care. Embracing the new advances in science as well as the time-honored art of pediatric practice, this classic reference provides the essential information that practitioners and other care providers involved in pediatric health care throughout the world need to understand to effectively address the enormous range of biologic, psychologic, and social problems that our children and youth may face. Brand-new chapters and comprehensive revisions throughout ensure that you have the most recent information on diagnosis and treatment of pediatric diseases based on the latest recommendations and methodologies.

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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
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