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More pediatricians and allied health professionals are finding themselves on the front lines identifying depression and suicide risk. This collection provides evidence-based guidelines for identification, assessment, treatment and ongoing management of adolescent depression and outlines the importance of screening teens.

The eighth edition of this bestselling AAP policy manual on pediatric nutrition has been significantly updated and includes many new contributing authors. This valuable reference covers how nutrients influence and direct growth and development, as well as immediate and long-term health, from birth through adolescence.

This new compendium is your source for trustworthy recommendations on quality care of children and adolescents with mental health issues. It features one new AAP clinical practice guideline on ADHD and 32 AAP policy statements and clinical and technical reports on mental health.

Thoroughly revised and expanded, this fourth edition offers a practical, objective, evidence-based guide to the medical diagnosis and management of child abuse. Written and edited by an array of the world's leading experts on child abuse and neglect, this resource clearly explains the signs, symptoms, and injuries of the abused child.

The fourth edition of this best-selling Red Book image companion aids in the diagnosis and treatment of more than 160 of the most commonly seen pediatric infectious diseases. Concise text descriptions walk the reader through the diagnosis, evaluation, and management essentials for each condition.

Covers practical approaches to caring for healthy and high-risk infants. The book covers maternal and fetal health, care of the newborn after delivery, breastfeeding, follow-up care, congenital anomalies, the newborn with a heart murmur or cyanosis, neurologic findings, primary care issues relating to intensive care, and developmental outcomes.

The ethical issues that arise in pediatrics vary drastically from those in other clinical settings because young children cannot make decisions for themselves. This essential collection presents a series of cases that highlight ethical dilemmas that arise in pediatrics.

Takes a practical approach to treating the child with gastrointestinal issues in the pediatric setting. Chapters focus on evaluation and management, with an emphasis on medical decision-making and supported by graded levels of evidence, with a goal of integrating evidence-based medicine in daily care.

Physicians play a critical role in identifying, evaluating, and treating children with a diagnosis of suspected or confirmed child maltreatment. This book provides practical and essential evidence-based guidelines and AAP references for evaluating and treating sentinel injuries, physical abuse, and sexual abuse.

This best-selling resource guides health care professionals through the preparticipation physical evaluation PPE process for young athletes from middle school through college. Included are recommendations on PPE timing, setting, and structure; medical history questions; and how to determine participation clearance.

Completely updated, this popular pocket guide provides commonly used reference ranges and values spanning birth through adolescence; plus, data needed for treatment of preterm and other newborns. This resource helps reduce search time for reference ranges and other critical values to optimize patient assessment and treatment.

Highlights the fundamental aspects of contraception with an overview of contraceptive methods and epidemiology; provides up-to-date guidance on medical eligibility criteria; and reviews critical policy advances supporting contraceptive access.

Provides the latest diagnostic and treatment recommendations for a wide range of clinical presentations, with discussion of differential diagnoses. To clarify points of diagnosis, 220 colour images, illustrations, and scans are included.

Contains guidelines on the development and evaluation of the health and safety of children in early care and education settings. This guide features 10 chapters of more than 650 standards and dozens of appendices with valuable supplemental information, forms, and tools.

Provides primary care clinicians with a framework for addressing paediatric mental health problems in the primary care practice. The book offers surveillance and screening tools to identify early signs and symptoms of mental health disorders and obtain evidence-based interventions to care for children and adolescents with mental health issues.

Helps teachers and caregivers address the challenges of caring for children with chronic health conditions and special health care needs in child care and school settings. The health issues covered include chronic illnesses, acute situations, and selected developmental and behavioural problems, with a special emphasis on children with special health care needs.

Presents a clinical framework for understanding the impact of toxic stress and both adverse and affiliative childhood experiences on development. This book makes a compelling case that many diseases of adulthood are not adult-onset, but rather adult-manifest, based on genetic and epigenetic consequences from early childhood experiences.

Provides a cohesive, sustainable, and ethical approach to medical education and research that addresses the health needs of children locally and globally. Areas covered include global health education and research efforts and substantive and sustainable approaches aimed at changing the health status of children, their families and communities through effective models of research and education.

Obtain practice-focused guidance on the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of the most commonly encountered paediatric respiratory conditions, asthma-related difficulties, and sleep disorders. Starting with the signs, symptoms, and conditions most commonly encountered in primary pulmonary care, the book provides advice for appropriate testing, treatment plans, and common complications.

Expanded and fully updated, the second edition of this popular resource provides essential information to help primary paediatric care providers to more confidently evaluate and care for children with developmental and behavioural concerns.

The number of children and adolescents affected by firearm violence is staggering. This print compendium of AAP editor-curated articles provides quick access to the latest, most salient studies to give a better understanding of the public health impact of firearm injuries.

Addresses topics of the newborn, genetic, and neurodevelopmental disorders such as sepsis, obsessive compulsive disorders; neuromuscular cases of weakness, and more. This book comprises short chapters supplemented with key figures and tables. Includes new content on apnoea, birth injuries, respiratory distress syndrome and turner syndrome.

This unique resource addresses the full spectrum of perinatal medicine from both the obstetric and pediatric standpoints. The new eighth edition gives you a single place to look for the most recent and trustworthy recommendations on quality care of pregnant women, their fetuses, and their neonates.

Developed by leading international child health authorities, with contributions from more than 40 experienced practitioners, this handy Atlas is the only handbook-sized text focused exclusivelyon pediatric tropic disease. A uniquely useful travel companion, it is formatted for efficient on-the-spot problem solving.

From the basics of transport management and establishment of quality improvement initiatives to accreditation and legal issues, this updated fourth edition is written in an easy-to-read, evidence-based format. Updated references, review questions, and Web resources make this book a must-have for any transport programme.

A comprehensive guide for pediatric practitioners covers all aspects of procedural sedation. It includes design and implementation of a procedural sedation programme, medications used, non-pharmacologic interventions, specific clinical scenarios, patient evaluation, monitoring, and recovery.

From the files of NeoReviews comes this collection of Perinatal Profiles, chosen to provide a glimpse into the lives of the "movers and shakers" in neonatal/perinatal medicine. Much of this collection has been written by the students of these pioneers who have gone on to become key NPM innovators themselves. They provide rare insight into the personalities of their mentors.

Making timely and accurate diagnoses and treatment recommendations requires rapid access to evidence-based information. Succinct Pediatrics addresses the topics of infectious diseases and dermatology in paediatric practice. It has the same straightforward design typified by short chapters supplemented with key figures and invaluable tables.

This award-winning book is a comprehensive reference that combines travel medicine, practicing medicine in other countries; and review of diseases endemic in the tropics and resource-limited areas.