Description
The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition of this best-selling reference provides immediate, practical advice on problems seen in infants, children, and adolescents. More than 460 chief complaints and diseases are covered in the fast-access two-page 5-Minute Consult format. Other features include a medication index, syndromes glossary, surgical glossary, laboratory values, and tables. This edition has new emergency department material including caustic, opioid, and “ecstasy-type” drug ingestion. New material on childhood obesity, metabolic syndrome, and probiotics is also included. A brand-new companion Website offers the fully searchable online text, plus selected full-color clinical photographs from Chung/Boom/Datto/Matz, Visual Diagnosis in Pediatrics. (www.5minpediatricconsult.com) This edition is also available for PDAs. See Media Products section for details.
