Lange Current Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatric Emergency Medicine

• Provides immediate access to life-saving and routine information through consistent chapter outlines
• Begins with a section on emergency procedures and child-safety issues
• Presents information the way an emergency medicine provider thinks and acts: by symptomatic presentation, including cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, shock, fever, abdominal pain, seizures, trauma
• Details evaluation and management of disorders routinely seen in Pediatric Emergency Medicine such as foreign bodies, respiratory infections, asthma, heart defects, dehydration, rashes, sickle-cell disease, sports-injuries and more
• Enhanced by numerous tables, and more than 400 illustrations and photographs to clarify concepts and improve understanding

Valuable to all practitioners of emergency medicine, from prehospital care providers to nurses and physicians

Designed for use in a busy, fastpaced emergency department

Focuses on the practical aspects of emergency care

Covers a wide spectrum of pediatric conditions

Roger L. Humphries, MD Assistant Professor and Residency Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY.

Keith Stone, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Scott & White Memorial Healthcare, Temple, TX.

Dorian Drigalla, MD, FACEP, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Scott and White Memorial Healthcare, Temple, TX

Maria Stephan, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY