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On Call Pediatrics

On Call Series

Be on call with confidence! Successfully managing on-call situations requires a masterful combination of speed, skill, and knowledge. The pocket-sized titles in the On Call series… Leer más

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Be on call with confidence! Successfully managing on-call situations requires a masterful combination of speed, skill, and knowledge. The pocket-sized titles in the On Call series provide you with immediate access to the vital, step-by-step information you need to rise to the occasion! When you're on call...alone...in the middle of the night...they're your answer books for what to do and how to do it quickly—from diagnosing a difficult or life-threatening situation to prescribing the right medication.

Puntos claves

  • Provides easy-to-reference, specialty-specific guidance on how to manage problems that arise while on call without direct supervision.
  • Catalogs the calls you are most likely to receive and provides you with the questions you should ask to assess the urgency of each situation.
  • Details the ideal approach to diagnose and manage patients, communicate with colleagues and families, and avoid common mistakes for every call.
  • Reviews the temporary orders appropriate for each call, as well as the general protocol, and the major threats to life you must consider before arriving at bedside.
  • Indexes problems by disease as well as by symptoms to expedite your access to the answers you need.
  • Includes a comprehensive collection of differential diagnoses and a detailed formulary of commonly used medications—a quick, alphabetically arranged reference for indications, drug dosages, routes of administration, side effects, contraindications, and modes of action.

De interès para

3rd & 4th year Medical students and Residents

Índice

Introduction


1. The Diagnosis and Management of On-Call Problems


2. Communicating With Colleagues


3. Communication With Families


4. Access: A Challenge, Not a Crisis


5. Common Mistakes


Patient-Related Problems


6. Abdominal Pain


7. Altered Mental Status


8. Analgesics and Antipyretics


9. Bleeding


10. Chest Pain


11. Constipation


12. Crying and the Irritable Infant


13. Cyanosis


14. Delivery Room Problems


15. Diarrhea and Dehydration


16. Extremity Pain


17. Eyes and Visual Abnormalities


18. Fever


19. Gastrointestinal Bleeding


20. Headache


21. Heart Rate and Rhythm Abnormalities


22. Hematuria


23. Hypertension


24. Hypotension and Shock


25. Lines, Tubes, and Drains


26. Rashes


27. Respiratory Distress


28. Seizures


29. Urine Output Abnormalities


30. Vomiting


Laboratory-Related Problems


31. Acidosis and Alkalosis


32. Anemia, Thrombocytopenia, and Coagulation Abnormalities


33. Electrolyte Abnormalities


34. Glucose Disorders


35. Hyperbilirubinemia


Appendices

A. Pediatric Procedures

B. Posteroanterior and Lateral Projections of Chest X-Ray

C. The Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve of Normal Blood

D. Calculation of Creatinine Clearance (CrCl)

E. Calculation of Alveolar-Arterial Oxygen Gradient

F. Blood Tubes

G. Assessment of Neonatal Maturity (Ballard Score)

H. Body Surface Nomogram

I. Heart Rate Table

J. Blood Pressure Nomogram

K. Normal Values and SI Units


On Call Formulary

Index

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Sobre los autores

JN

James J. Nocton

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Rheumatology, Director, Pediatric Residency Training Program, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin and the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Formerly Chief Resident in Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH

RG

Rainer Gedeit

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, Associate Director, Pediatric Residency Training Program, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin and the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI