
Instant Work-ups: A Clinical Guide to Pediatrics
- 1st Edition - August 10, 2009
- Imprint: Saunders
- Authors: Theodore X. O'Connell, Jonathan M. Wong, Kevin M. Haggerty, Timothy J. Horita
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 1 6 0 - 5 4 6 2 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 3 7 7 - 2 5 1 3 - 1
Instant Workups: Clinical Guide to Pediatrics, by Theodore X. O'Connell, MD, is a portable pocket resource and quick refresher that helps you develop and refine your diagnostic… Read more
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Instant Workups: Clinical Guide to Pediatrics, by Theodore X. O'Connell, MD, is a portable pocket resource and quick refresher that helps you develop and refine your diagnostic skills. Practical and easy to use, it provides clear workup plans for the most common pediatric conditions, providing you with quick, focused guidance with the flexibility to adapt to each unique patient. Topics are organized alphabetically and cover the signs, symptoms, and abnormal lab readings for each condition. Replace information taken from memory or multiple references with one concise, indispensable book so you can make accurate diagnoses in less time!
- Covers the most commonly encountered pediatric conditions to provide you with a practical and useful manual for daily practice.
- Reflects how a patient actually presents with an organization by presenting sign, symptom, or lab abnormality.
- Includes a brief background discussion on each topic, followed by lists of important related materials (such as medications that may contribute to each condition) and laboratory and/or radiographic tests to be ordered.
- Describes each diagnostic test so you can refresh or familiarize yourself with the purpose of the test.
- Provides a sound framework for building a workup with algorithms for each topic.
Medical students in Rotations, Primary Care/IM Residents, primary care/IM physicians, Nurse practitioners, Physician Assistants
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 10, 2009
- Imprint: Saunders
- Language: English
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Theodore X. O'Connell
Dr. Ted O'Connell is a family physician, educator, author, innovator, and speaker. He served as the founding director of Kaiser Permanente’s Napa-Solano family medicine residency program and serves as a clinical professor for UC San Francisco, UC Davis, and Drexel University’s schools of medicine. He also founded Kaiser’s community medicine and global health fellowship. has authored or edited over a dozen textbooks, written numerous textbook chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. Among his most notable are USMLE Step 2 Secrets, USMLE Step 3 Secrets, Crush Step 1, and the Instant Workups series of books. He is the Editor-In-Chief for Elsevier’s Clinical Key Meded education platform.
Affiliations and expertise
Founding Director, Family Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Napa-Solano, Napa; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USAKH
Kevin M. Haggerty
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Physician
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
Woodland Hills, CaliforniaTH
Timothy J. Horita
Affiliations and expertise
Program Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills, Wookland Hills, CA; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Partner Physician, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Woodland Hills, CA