Written by residents for residents, Pediatric Acute Care is designed to help you during initial patient stabilization and management.  It features abundant algorithms to guide you through both medical and surgical problems in the Emergency Department, on the wards, or in the PICU.  This useful guide helps you anticipate life-threatening complications and recognize when to call appropriate services or transfer to a tertiary care center.  The Handbook presents material in an outline format with helpful icons for easy reference, beginning with:

  • the ABCs of CPR
  • 60 Critical Conditions, organized by type of disorder
  • Procedures, offering specific how-to instruction

The editors complete the text by including useful appendixes that highlight the practical information you need to have handy, a list of suggested reading for further in-depth study, and a summary of common abbreviations.

A current and tested guide to patient management, The Pediatric Acute Care Handbook is an ideal pocket resource.

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

Editor-in-Chief:  Dr. Tej K. Matoo, Children's Hospital of Michigan

Synopsis is a quarterly journal which seeks to disseminate the latest knowledge in pediatrics to clinicians all over the world at an affordable price.  It offers an updated, time-saving and comprehensive information on current developments in clinical pediatrics, aiming to serve the needs of practicing pediatricians, generalists with a wide pediatric base, pediatric specialists and those in training.

Synopsis contains summaries of recent clinical research articles published in international pediatric and related journals.  Summaries are selected from more than 200 journals by an international editing board consisting of accomplished pediatricians and other health care providers involved in the care of children.  Each summary is accompanied by commentary.

Visit the Synopsis website at www.pedsynopsis.com