Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics - Paperback

by Section on Hospital Medicine American Ac (Author), Jeffrey C. Gershel (Editor), Daniel A. Rauch (Editor)

Developed by top pediatric hospitalists, Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics, 3rd Edition, is sure to become your go-to resource from initial patient evaluation all the way through discharge management. Quickly obtain the essential information for managing a wide range of pediatric medical conditions in patients who have been admitted to the hospital with this trusted, pocket-sized reference.

Each chapter not only discusses clinical presentation, essential laboratory tests, differential diagnosis, treatment, indications for consultation, and disposition but contains many helpful tables and an easy-to-follow template. Chapters also include a short bulleted list of essential pearls and pitfalls. Although the book focuses primarily on diseases and conditions, it contains helpful sections that address the many other issues practicing hospitalists are confronted with, including ethics, billing, utilization management, surge planning, and transport, as well as a brief section on common equipment.

The alphabetized Contents has been updated to include Autism Spectrum Disorder, Hypertension, Constipation, Surge Planning, Utilization Management, and both Acute COVID-19 Disease and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). A new part on newborn care has been added, covering topics such as breastfeeding, hypoglycemia of the newborn, and early onset sepsis.

Author Biography

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 67,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. The AAP is the largest pediatric publisher in the world, with a diverse list of resources that includes essential clinical and practice management titles and award-winning books for parents.

Editor: Jeffrey C. Gershel, MD, FAAP
Jeffrey C. Gershel, MD, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY, and the former vice-chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Jacobi Medical Center.

Editor: Daniel A. Rauch, MD, FAAP, SFHM
Daniel A. Rauch, MD, FAAP, SFHM, is a professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Rauch has been very involved in developing the field of pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) with leadership roles in the American Academy of Pediatrics and Academic Pediatric Association, planning the national PHM conference and 2 separate regional conferences, starting the national PHM fellows meeting, and helping move forward the PHM certification effort. He is coeditor of Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics, 3rd Edition, and Challenging Cases in Pediatric Hospital Medicine.