Pediatric Physical Examination & Health Assessment

Pediatric Physical Examination & Health Assessment explores physical examinations of pediatric clients from newborn through adolescence including how to conduct and assess them. A beginning guide for those learning to perform physical examination on patients from birth through adolescence, this text describes the many examination techniques for infants and children throughout their development. Approaching each system from a developmental perspective, each chapter addresses a specific system and is divided into four major components: interviewing techniques on how to approach to the infant, toddler, preschool, school-age, and adolescent, anatomy and physiology pertinent to each age group, examination techniques developmentally appropriate for each age group, and normal variations and common abnormal findings.

Chapter1 Family Dynamics
Chapter2 Interview Process and Health History
Chapter3 Assessment Techniques and Vital Signs
Chapter4 Newborn Assessment
Chapter5 Examination of the Skin, Hair and Nails
Chapter6 Examination of the Eye
Chapter7 Examination of the Head, Neck and Lymphatics
Chapter8 Examination of the Ear, Nose, Throat
Chapter9 Examination of the Lungs & Thorax
Chapter10 Cardiovascular Examination
Chapter11 Examination of the Abdomen
Chapter12 Musculoskeletal Examination
Chapter13 Examination of the Central Nervous System
Chapter14 Male and Female Genitalia
Chapter15 Breast and Axillae
Chapter16 Integration of the Examination: Putting It All Together