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Advances in Pediatrics, 2018

  • 1st Edition, Volume 65-1 - August 1, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Carol D. Berkowitz, Surendra Varma, Moira Szilagyi, Edward M. Barksdale Jr., Jane Carver, Leslie L. Barton
  • Language: English

Each year, Advances in Pediatrics focuses on providing current clinical information on important topics in pediatrics. This year, Dr. Carol Berkowitz has taken over as Editor, and… Read more

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Each year, Advances in Pediatrics focuses on providing current clinical information on important topics in pediatrics. This year, Dr. Carol Berkowitz has taken over as Editor, and she and her new editorial board have assembled top authors to provide updates on the following topics: Evaluation and Management of Febrile Infants < 3 months of age; Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Ultrasonography; The Patient-Centered Pediatric Emergency Department; Management of Scoliosis; Health and Wellness for LGBTQ Youth; Sexually Exploited Children: Recognizing and Addressing; Movement Disorders in Children; Childhood Trauma Management in Primary Care; Physician Well-Being and Burnout; New Molecular Methods for Diagnosing Infectious Diseases; Parental Refusal: Treatments, Procedures and Vaccines: What to say and What to do; Pediatric Oncology in the ICU setting; Diaphragmatic Hernia: Management and Outcomes; and Global Health and Pediatric Education: Opportunities and Challenges. Readers will come away with the clinical information that supplements their professional knowledge so they can make informed clinical decisions that improve patient outcomes.

Table of contents

Battling Burnout: Strategies for Promoting Physician Wellnes

Integrative Medicine in Pediatrics

Health and Wellness for LGBTQ

Child Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Global Health and Pediatric Education: Opportunities and Challenges

Parental Refusal for Treatments, Procedures, and Vaccines in the Newborn Nursery

The Patient-Centered Emergency Department

Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Pediatric Emergency Department: Where We’re at, Where We’re Going

Childhood Trauma Management in Primary Care

The Pediatrician and Marijuana: An Era of Change

Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Febrile Infants: Challenging Tradition

Expanding Molecular Diagnostics for Central Nervous System Infections

Movement Disorders in Children

Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: Management & Outcomes

Management of Scoliosis

Review quotes

"I have been reading these volumes since I was a pediatric resident 40 years ago.I have always enjoyed the articles and learned a lot from them."

-Joseph Hageman, MD (University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine) Doody's Score 98-5 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 65-1
  • Published: August 1, 2018
  • Language: English

About the authors

CB

Carol D. Berkowitz

Affiliations and expertise
Executive Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Torrance, California

SV

Surendra Varma

Surendra Varma works at the Texas Tech University of Health Sciences, USA
Affiliations and expertise
Texas Tech University of Health Sciences, USA

EB

Edward M. Barksdale Jr.

Affiliations and expertise
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital

JC

Jane Carver

Professor Jane Carver works in the Department of Pediatrics and Molecular Medicine at University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA

LB

Leslie L. Barton

Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita, Department of Pediatrics, Steele Memorial Children’s Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona