Quick Reference Guide to Pediatric Care

Here’s the first place to turn for practical, action-oriented clinical solutions — whenever and wherever you need them. The all-new AAP Quick Reference Guide to Pediatric Care delivers the practical, action-oriented clinical solutions you need "right now." It's the perfect resource to use during or between patient encounters. Authoritative AAP content is presented in a concise outline format that makes it easy to zero in on what you're looking for. Quickly look up key information and recommendations on: Prevention, Screening, Signs and symptoms, Treatment, Emotional and behavioral problems, Specific clinical problems, Critical situations. Need-to-know information and advice on more than 230 topic areas: Everything from abdominal pain and ADHD to herpes and HIV to umbilical anomalies and UTIs, Efficiently evaluate signs and symptoms, Order the right screening/diagnostic tests, Implement approved therapeutic strategies, Prescribe safe and effective medications, Confidently respond to patient questions, Valuable "extras" help you find solutions even faster, And more than 100 full-color images. Contents: Abdominal Distention, Abdominal Pain, Acne, Acute Surgical Abdomen, Adrenal Dysfunction, Airways Obstruction, Allergic Rhinitis, Alopecia and Hair Shaft Anomalies, Altered Mental Status, Amblyopia, Amenorrhea, Anaphylaxis, Anemia and Pallor, Animal Bites, Anorexia Nervosa, Anuria and Oliguria, Apparent Life-Threatening Event, Appendicitis, Asthma, Atopic Dermatitis, ADHD, Autism, Back Pain, Bacterial Skin Infections, Brain Tumors, Bronchiolitis, and much more.

Editor In Chief: Deepak M. Kamat, MD, PhD, FAAP

Deepak M. Kamat, MD, PhD, FAAP, received his MD and PhD from the University of Bombay, India and then completed his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric immunology and bone marrow transplant at the University of Minnesota. He also served as the program director for the combined Medicine/Pediatrics program at the University of Minnesota.

Currently, he is a professor at the Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics at the Childrens Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University. He is also the vice chair of education, director of the Institute of Medical Education, and program director for the International Health Pathway and Pediatric Global Health Certificate program. Dr Kamat is honored with many teaching awards by medical students and residents at the University of Minnesota, at West Virginia University, and at the Childrens Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State University. He practices general pediatrics, clinical immunology, and international health.

Dr Kamat is the lead editor of the Point-of-Care Quick Reference on Pediatric Care Online?. He Kamat is appointed editor of the Index of Suspicion Section of Pediatrics in Review from July 2008, and he is an associate editor of the AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care.


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