CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics, Nineteenth Edition

The Classic On-the-Go Guide to Pediatric Practice--Now More Current and Essential Than Ever! ..CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatricshas long been the go-to guide for students, residents, and practitioners looking for concise, reliable, and up-to-date information. It continues to provide succinct, up-to-date, and clinically relevant coverage of how to assess and treat common disorders in children, from eating disorders and cardiovascular diseases to STDs. .Features: .Easy-to-follow LANGE CURRENT outline format: Problem, Essentials of Diagnosis and Typical Features, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis . Organized by general topics such as care of the newborn and community pediatrics, as well as by organ system and specific disease/problems . "Essentials of Diagnosis and Typical Features" provide instant guidance on identifying both common and rare problems . Accessible overviews of important pediatric health concerns, including substance abuse, psychiatric disorders, child abuse and neglect, normal childhood nutrition and its disorders, and emergencies and injuries . NEW to this edition:chapter on Sport Medicine (a key area of pediatrics for which students and residents state they need more training--ACGME survey), completely reorganized section on Infectious Diseases reflecting the most recent clinical perspectives, expanded section on lab and reference values ..

William W. Hay, Jr., MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics Section in Neonatalogy and the Division of Perinatal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Childrenn++s Hospital, Denver.

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Myron J. Levin, MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Denver

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Judith M. Sondheimer, MD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Denver

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Robin R. Deterding, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Denver

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