Oski's Paediatrics: Principles and Practice - Hardcover

Oski, Frank A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0781716187 ISBN 13: 9780781716185

Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1999

Synopsis

The Third Edition of "Oski's Pediatrics" has been thoroughly updated and completely reorganized for greater accessibility. Spanning the entire range of contemporary pediatric medicine, this book is an authoritative, easy-to-use, and clinically relevant reference for students, residents, and clinicians. This edition's new Rapid Access section provides succinct overviews of 200 common problems, including definition, etiology, clinical presentation, studies, and treatment for quick reference. Each entry is cross-referenced to the appropriate text chapter. The text chapters are detailed, succinct, and clinically relevant, with numerous tables and algorithms. They cover every aspect of pediatrics, including neonatology, ambulatory care, psychiatric and behavioral disorders, chronic illness, adolescent medicine, sports medicine, infectious diseases, organ system disorders, and critical care.New chapters include measuring the quality of care in pediatrics; genetic testing in pediatric primary care; gene therapy; adoption; antiretroviral therapy in pediatric AIDS; postexposure prophylaxis in pediatric AIDS; acquired cytomegaloviral infections; the cestodes; hernia; childhood obesity; neuroendocrine disorders; amyloidosis; and care of the child with a solid organ transplant. 'A Pediatrician's Companion: Things You Forgot to Remember' section provides easy access to frequently needed information: presenting signs and symptoms, normal lab values, pediatric procedures, and an atlas of syndromes with morphologic anomalies. "Oski's Pediatrics, Third Edition" can also be purchased with an accompanying interactive CD-ROM that includes the full text and illustrations plus the text of Dr Loren D Walensky's companion handbook, "Rapid Access Pediatrics".

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Review

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 22-NOV-06, Volume 296, Issue 20, Gary L. Freed, MD, MPH, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI -- "An outstanding reference for the care of pediatric patients. It will be of great use to students and house officers on a regular basis as a resource for understanding and caring for the patients they encounter. For practicing clinicians the text will provide a useful review of conditions infrequently seen in practice and will help confirm diagnostic criteria and treatment options."--Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

Edition details

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0781716187
• ISBN 13: 9780781716185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 2848
• Editor: McMillan Julia A., Et Al