5-Minute Pediatric Consult

The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition of this best-selling reference provides immediate, practical advice on problems seen in infants, children, and adolescents. More than 460 chief complaints and diseases are covered in the fast-access two-page outline format that makes The 5-Minute Consult Series titles so popular among busy clinicians. Other features include a medication index, syndromes glossary, surgical glossary, laboratory values, and tables.

The Fifth Edition has new emergency department material including ingestion of caustics, opioids, and "ecstasy-type" drugs. New material on childhood obesity, metabolic syndrome, and probiotics is also included.

A brand-new companion Website offers the fully searchable text plus full-color clinical photographs from Chung/Boom/Datto/Matz, Visual Diagnosis in Pediatrics.

The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, Fifth Edition is also available for PDAs. See PDA listing for details.
Table Of Contents
Section I: Chief Complaints and Specific Diseases

Abdominal Mass
Abdominal Migraine
Abdominal Pain
Abnormal Bleeding
Acetaminophen Poisoning
Acne
Babesiosis
Back Pain
Barotitis
Behavioral or Psychiatric Problems
Bell Palsy
Campylobacter Infections
Candidiasis
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Cardiomyopathy
Cataract
Daytime Incontinence
Dehydration
Deletion Syndrome (DiGeorge Syndrome)
Dermatomyositis/Polymyositis
Developmental Disabilities
Earache
Edema
Ehrlichiosis
Encephalitis
Encopresis
Failure to Thrive
Feeding Disorders
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Fever and Petechiae
Fever of Unknown Cause
Gastritis
Gastroesophageal Reflux
German Measles (Third Disease, Rubella)
Giardiasis
Gingivitis
Heat Stroke and Related Illness
Hemangiomas and Other Vascular Lesions
Hematuria
Hemolysis
Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn
Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
Immune Deficiency
Immunoglobulin A Deficiency
Imperforate Anus
Impetigo
Jaundice
Kawasaki Disease
Knee Pain, Anterior/Patellofemoral Malalignment Syndrome
Kwashiorkor
Lacrimal Duct Obstruction
Lactose Intolerance
Lead Poisoning
Learning Problems
Leukocytosis
Methemoglobinemia
Microcytic Anemia
Milia
Milk Protein Intolerance
Mumps/Parotitis
Neuroblastoma
Neurofibromatosis
Neutropenia
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Nosebleeds (Epistaxis)
Obesity
Omphalitis
Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Osteomyelitis
Osteosarcoma
Pulmonary Embolism
Pulmonary Hypertension
Purpura Fulminans
Pyelonephritis
Pyloric Stenosis
Rabies
Rectal Prolapse
Refractive Error
Renal Artery Stenosis
Renal Failure, Acute
Supraventricular Tachycardia
Sympathomimetic Poisoning
Syncope
Synovitis-Transient
Syphilis
Tapeworm
Teething
Tendonitis
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Tularemia
Ulcerative Colitis
Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction
Urethral Prolapse
Urinary Tract Infection
Urticaria
Vaginitis
Vein of Galen Malformations
Ventricular Septal Defect
Ventricular Tachycardia
Vesicoureteral Reflux
Viral Hepatitis
Volvulus
Vomiting
Von Willebrand Disease
Warts
Weight Loss
Wilson Disease
Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
Yersinia Enterocolitica

Section II----Syndromes Glossary

Section III---Cardiology Laboratory

Section IV---Surgical Glossary

Section V---Normal Laboratory Values

Section VI---Tables

Section VII---Medications.