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The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics

  • 12th Edition - September 3, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: The Hospital for Sick Children, Shawna Silver, Deborah Schonfeld, Siobhán Neville, Catherine Diskin
  • Language: English

Practical and pocket sized, The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics has been a trusted clinical reference for more than 50 years. The fully revised 12th Edition… Read more

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Practical and pocket sized, The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics has been a trusted clinical reference for more than 50 years. The fully revised 12th Edition continues this tradition of excellence with succinct, easily accessible, and evidence-based answers for the diagnosis and management of pediatric patients. Get the reliable information you need from staff pediatricians, specialists, residents, and fellows at one of the top pediatric hospitals in the world.

Key features

  • Provides the most up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to pediatric clinical problems using evidence-based guidelines
  • Contains new chapters on mental health and technology and medical complexity
  • Offers quick access to comprehensive information on urgent situations in a six-chapter Acute Care section devoted to pediatric emergencies
  • Includes abundant algorithms for bedside diagnoses and management of various scenarios
  • Offers fast access to key information such as normal reference values for various ages and sizes of pediatric patients, common equations and normal vital signs, and resuscitation drugs
  • Widely used by medical students, residents, practicing pediatricians, family physicians, emergency physicians, nurses, and other interdisciplinary practitioners
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Readership

Pediatric Residents and Fellows; Medical Students (main markets have traditionally been in Canada and Australia)

Table of contents

Section I. Acute Care Pediatrics

1. Resuscitation

2. Anesthesia

3. Emergency Medicine

4. Poisonings and Toxicology

5. Pain and Sedation

6. Procedures

Section II. Subspecialty Pediatrics

7. Adolescent Medicine

8. Allergy and Immunology

9. Cardiology

10. Child Maltreatment

11. Dentistry

12. Dermatology

13. Development

14. Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology

15. Endocrinology

16. Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acid–Base

17. Gastroenterology and Hepatology

18. General Surgery

19. Genetics

20. Growth and Nutrition

21. Gynecology

22. Hematology

23. Immunoprophylaxis

24. Infectious Diseases

25. Metabolic Disease

26. Neonatology

27. Nephrology

28. Neurology and Neurosurgery

29. Oncology

30. Ophthalmology

31. Orthopedics

32. Otolaryngology

33. Plastic Surgery

34. Respirology

35. Rheumatology

36. Transplantation

37. Urology

Section III. Laboratory Reference Values

Section IV. Pediatric Drug Dosing Guidelines

Product details

  • Edition: 12
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 11, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

SN

Siobhán Neville

Affiliations and expertise
MD

CD

Catherine Diskin

Affiliations and expertise
MD