Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics

Practical and pocket sized, The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics has been a trusted clinical reference for more than 50 years. The fully revised 12th Edition continues this tradition of excellence with succinct, easily accessible, and evidence-based answers for the diagnosis and management of pediatric patients. Get the reliable information you need from staff pediatricians, specialists, residents, and fellows at one of the top pediatric hospitals in the world.

Key Features

• Provides the most up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to pediatric clinical problems using evidence-based guidelines.
• Contains new chapters on mental health and technology and medical complexity.
• Offers quick access to comprehensive information on urgent situations in a six-chapter Acute Care section devoted to pediatric emergencies.
• Includes abundant algorithms for bedside diagnoses and management of various scenarios.
• Offers fast access to key information such as normal reference values for various ages and sizes of pediatric patients, common equations and normal vital signs, and resuscitation drugs.
• Widely used by medical students, residents, practicing pediatricians, family physicians, emergency physicians, nurses, and other interdisciplinary practitioners.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Section I: Acute Care Pediatrics
Chapter 1: Resuscitation
Chapter 2: Anesthesia
Chapter 3: Emergency Medicine
Chapter 4: Poisonings and Toxicology
Chapter 5: Pain and Sedation
Chapter 6: Procedures
Section II: Subspecialty Pediatrics
Chapter 7: Adolescent Medicine
Chapter 8: Allergy and Immunology
Chapter 9: Cardiology
Chapter 10: Child Maltreatment
Chapter 11: Dentistry
Chapter 12: Dermatology
Chapter 13: Development
Chapter 14: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology
Chapter 15: Endocrinology
Chapter 16: Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base
Chapter 17: Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Chapter 18: General Surgery
Chapter 19: Genetics
Chapter 20: Growth and Nutrition
Chapter 21: Gynecology
Chapter 22: Hematology
Chapter 23: Immunoprophylaxis
Chapter 24: Infectious Diseases
Chapter 25: Metabolic Disease
Chapter 26: Neonatology
Chapter 27: Nephrology
Chapter 28: Neurology and Neurosurgery
Chapter 29: Oncology
Chapter 30: Ophthalmology
Chapter 31: Orthopedics
Chapter 32: Otolaryngology
Chapter 33: Plastic Surgery
Chapter 34: Respirology
Chapter 35: Rheumatology
Chapter 36: Transplantation
Chapter 37: Urology
Section III: Laboratory Reference Values
Section IV: Pediatric Drug Dosing Guidelines

Author Information

Edited by HSC; Shawna Silver, MD; Deborah Schonfeld, MD; Siobhán Neville, MD and Catherine Diskin, MD

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