The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition of this best-selling reference provides immediate, practical advice on problems seen in infants, children, and adolescents. More than 460 chief complaints and diseases are covered in the fast-access two-page 5-Minute Consult format. Other features include a medication index, syndromes glossary, surgical glossary, laboratory values, and tables. This edition has new emergency department material including caustic, opioid, and "ecstasy-type" drug ingestion. New material on childhood obesity, metabolic syndrome, and probiotics is also included. A brand-new companion Website offers the fully searchable text plus full-color clinical photographs from Chung/Boom/Datto/Matz, Visual Diagnosis in Pediatrics. This edition is also available for PDAs. See Media Products section for details.

Schwartz, M. William, MD (Univ of Pennsylvania); Bell, Louis M., MD (Univ of Pennsylvania); Bingham, Peter M., MD (Univ of Pennsylvania); Chung, Esther K., MD (Univ of Pennsylvania); Friedman, David F., MD (Univ of Pennsylvania); Mulberg, Andrew E., MD (Univ of Pennsylvania)The contributors represent the specialties of pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine, cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, pulmonary medicine, and hematology/oncology. Most are from universities and medical centers in the U.S, including Univ of Pennsylvania, Carolina's Medical Center, UCSF, and Univ of Connecticut.

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