Current Pediatric Therapy (Gellis and Kagan's Current Pediatric Therapy)
Pages:1408
The New 17th Edition of this popular resource presents the most recent advances in the therapeutic care of infants, children, and adolescents in all areas of pediatrics (including medical therapy, surgery of all types, preventive medicine, adolescent gynecology, and behavioral issues). Readers will benefit from succinct essays on proper treatment for a wide of disorders, rationales to support suggested therapies, guidelines as to when not to treat a presenting symptom, and the associated risks and complications of therapy.
Features:
Utilizes an "organ system" approach, making it easy for the reader to find the proper therapy.
Explores treatment of major infectious diseases, including helicobacter, ureaplasma-genital mycoplasma, and Hanta virus.
What's New :
Offers a new section on fluids and electrolytes, providing direct guidance in this critical area. Features a new co-editor-Anne Gershon-a leading expert in infectious disease. Includes more psychological and psychosocial material than ever before, including depression, psychosis, children of divorced parents, coping with the death of a loved one, children of homeless and battered women, and diet fads. Features 80-90% all-new material, so readers can feel confident they are providing state-of-the-art care.
Description from the previous edition:
This new volume presents the most recent advances in the therapeutic care of infants, children, and adolescents in all areas of pediatrics (including medical therapy, surgery of all types, preventive medicine, adolescent gynecology, and behavioral issues), as well as the rationale that supports the therapy. The editors have assembled a writing team from the best pediatricians in the world, representing every pediatric discipline and related specialty.
New to this volume are a more liberal use of references and an enhanced psychosocial content.
Outstanding Features:
Tables clarify points of interest and facilitate access to data.
Comprehensive coverage of therapy for infants, children and adolescents puts detailed information for almost all childhood diseases at hand, including management of fractures by pediatricians, fluid and electrolyte disorders, diabetes, and burn patients.
Coverage of ancillary disciplines encompasses pediatric and surgical subspecialties as well as fields such as dentistry and psychiatry.
Short sections with easy-to-find information offer the excellent readability that has been a hallmark of this series.
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