Now in its Second Edition, Pediatric Hospital Medicine focuses exclusively on the management of hospitalized pediatric patients from admission to discharge.

This book is an excellent resource for residency programs, hospitalist fellowships, and continuing education for physicians whose practice includes the management of hospitalized newborns and children.

Pediatric Hospital Medicine provides a framework for unified management and effective and efficient care. This edition includes new sections on emergency medicine and psychiatric hospitalization and expanded coverage of management of children with complex and chronic conditions.

Contents

1. General Issues in Pediatric Hospital Medicine
2. Ethical and Legal Issues
3. Common Presenting Signs, Symptoms, Differential Diagnosis
4. Cardiovascular
5. Pulmonary Disease
6. Neurologic
7. Gastaroenterology
8. Hematology-Oncology
9. Renal
10. Vasculitis/Rheumatologic
11. Infectious Diseases
12. Endocrine
13. Common and Uncommon Problems of the Term Newborn
14. Surgical
15. Hospital Care of Children with Complex and Chronic Disorders
16. Sedation and Pain Management
17. Child Abuse and Neglect
18. Nutrition
19. Emergency Medicine
20. Psychiatric Hospitalization

Index

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