Patients arrive with symptoms rather than a diagnosis. Nelson Pediatric Symptom-Based Diagnosis: Common Diseases and their Mimics, 2nd Edition, covers the symptoms you’re likely to see in practice, their mimics, and uncommon disorders. It provides authoritative guidance on differential diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders in children and adolescents using a practical, symptom-based organization. When faced with common symptoms including cough, fever, headache, autistic-like behaviors, chronic pain, chest pain, gait problems, and much more, Drs. Robert M. Kliegman, Heather Toth, Brett J. Bordini, and Donald Basel lead you through what to think about and how to proceed.
starts with the symptom that is presenting and guides you through differential diagnosis and a brief summary of suggested treatments.
includes almost a dozen new themes, such as the following: Shock, Hypertension, Neurocognitive and Developmental Regression, Chronic Pain, Hypertonicity, Movement Disorders, Hypermobility, and Disease Mimics: An Approach to Undiagnosed Diseases.
includes a new emphasis on uncommon disease signs that resemble more prevalent disease symptoms.
provides a user-friendly approach to altered mental status, including coma and other central nervous system illnesses, and includes a wealth of clinically helpful tables and figures to support clinical judgment in a range of care settings.
uses a highly templated approach with the same uniform presentation in each chapter (history, physical examination, diagnosis (including laboratory testing), diagnosis, and treatment) for easy reference and fast replies to clinical issues.
Several full-color images, charts, algorithms, and “red flags” to help with differential diagnosis are included.
makes a perfect companion to the 21st edition of the Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. When you own both references, you may easily access the complete background information as well as the evidence-based therapy and management content in this book because it is electronically linked to the bigger work.
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