Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice

✍ Scribed by Samir Shah, Adam J. Ratner, Alex R. Kemper

• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 736
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The most practice-oriented guide to diagnosing and managing infectious diseases in children

Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, Second Edition is filled with practical, clinically relevant guidance for successful infectious disease management. The care of the patient forms the core of this indispensable resource, which also provides perspectives on epidemiology, pathophysiology, and diagnosis that every pediatrician, pediatric hospitalist, and pediatric nurse practitioner needs to know. The book's high-yield coverage includes detailed, yet precise overviews of specific infections and their etiology, along with proven diagnostic and management strategies that readers can incorporate into their practice right away.

FEATURES:

• Tips that tell you what you must know--and do--at every stage of care

• Diagnostic and treatment algorithms

• Signs/Symptoms and Differential Diagnosis boxes

• "When to Refer" boxes, which examine all the relevant clinical considerations

• Diagnostic Tests--with a realistic emphasis on the right tests to order

• Medical Treatment coverage that includes drugs, dosages, and administration in an easy-to-read tabular format

• Convenient icons and a templated chapter design

• Numerous clinical color photos and didactic diagrams

• NEW! Clinical Pearls boxes accompany coverage of each infectious disease

• Updated treatment guidelines and protocols from the CDC

If you are in need of an up-to-date, clinically relevant guide to treating infectious diseases in pediatric patients, your search ends here.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
SECTION 1 Practical Aspects
1 Laboratory Diagnosis of Bacterial,Parasitic,and Fungal Infections
2 Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral lnfections
3 Vaccine Safety and Risk Communication
4 lnfection Prevention and Control in the Office
5 lnfection Prevention and Control in the Hospital
6 lnfectious Diseases Epidemiology
7 Quality Improvement in lnfectious Diseases
8 Antibacterial Agents
9 Antifungal Agents
10 Antiviral Agents
SECTION 2 Sign and Symptoms
11 Chronic Abdominal Pain
12 Ataxia
13 Dysuria
14 Headache
15 Joint Complaints
16 Neck Pain
17 Rash
18 Noisy Breathing
SECTION 3 Neurologic Infections
19 Meningitis
20 Encephalitis
21 Transverse Myelitis
22 Pediatric Movement Disorders and lnfectious Disease
SECTION 4 Ophthalmologic Infections
23 Conjunctivitis in the Neonate
24 Conjunctivitis in the Older Child
25 Periorbital and Orbital lnfections
26 lnfectious Keratitis
SECTION 5 Oral Cavity and Neck Infections
27 Pharyngitis and Stomatitis
28 Peritonsillar and Retropharyngeal Abscess
29 Cervical Lymphadenitis
30 Dental Caries and Gingival and Periodontal lnfections
SECTION 6 Upper Respiratory Infections
31 Otitis Media
32 Otitis Externa
33 Sinusitis
34 Croup
SECTION 7 lower Respiratory Infections
35 Bronchiolitis
36 Uncomplicated Pneumonia
37 Complicated Pneumonia
38 Recurrent Pneumonia
39 Childhood Tuberculosis
SECTION 8 Cardiac lnfections
40 Infective Endocarditis
41 Myocarditis and Pericarditis
SECTION 9 Gastrointestinal Infections
42 Gastroenteritis
43 Hepatitis
44 Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea and Clostridium difficile lnfection
SECTION 10 Genitourinary Infections
45 Urinary Tract Infections
46 Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
47 Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescents
SECTION 11 Skin Infections
48 Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
49 Bite Wound lnfections
SECTION 12 Bone and Joint Infections
50 Osteomyelitis
51 Septic Arthritis
52 Diskitis
SECTION 13 Perinatal and Neonatal Infections
53 Congenital lnfections
54 Perinatal lnfections
55 Neonatal Fever
SECTION 14 HIV Exposure and Infection
56 HIV-Exposed and HIV At-Risk Infants
57 Care of the HIV-Infected Child
58 Infections in HIV-Infected Children
59 Preventing HIV lnfection
SECTION 15 Infections Complicating Chronic Diseases
60 Infections in Children with Neurologic Impairment
61 Infections in Asplenic Children
62 Infections in Atopic Dermatitis
SECTION 16 Congenital Immune Deficiency Syndromes
63 Evaluation of the Child with Suspected Immunodeficiency
SECTION 17 Fever Syndromes
64 Fever of Unknown Origin
65 Autoinflammatory Syndromes Including Periodic Fevers
66 Mononucleosis Syndromes
SECTION 18 Travel-Related Infections
68 Pretravel Preparation
69 Fever in the Returned Traveler
70 Malaria
71 Intestinal Parasites
72 Infectious Disease Issues in Internationally Adopted Children
SECTION 19 Healthcare-Acquired Infections
73 Surgical Site lnfections
74 Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt lnfections
75 Central Venous Catheter-Associated Bloodstream lnfections
Index