Pediatrics : a case-based review / Michaela Kreckmann ; translator, Gertrude Champe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kreckmann, Michaela, author.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Clinical competence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Thieme, [2019]

Language Note:

In English and German.

Summary:

Sharpen your diagnostic and problem-solving skills with these 85 selected pediatric teaching cases, fully detailed and illustrated Going well beyond the purely theoretical, this collection of cases will help you simulate the thought process you would engage when working with real patients. Supplemented by excellent color photographs and radiologic images, diagnostic imaging studies, lab results, tables and schematics, and more, the book is packed with valuable information that will help clear your way to greater confidence in managing your pediatric patients. Key Features: Great clinical relevance with emphasis on a case- and problem-oriented approach Suggestions for questions to ask in taking the history Answer section with detailed commentary on the individual cases Cases highlighting social pediatrics, adolescent psychiatry, and pediatric surgery Training in the use of diagnostic imaging Helpful as a supplement when preparing for board examinations Kreckmann's Pediatrics: A Case Book will be a valuable companion for students and interns preparing for clinical rotations and for pediatric board examinations as well.

Contents:

Pediatrics: A Case-Based Review

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Table of Contents: By cases

Table of Contents: By topics

Table of Contents: Answers and Comments

Cases

1 Six-year-old boy with high fever, vomiting, and headache

2 Child with barking cough and dyspnea

3 Child with high fever and seizure

4 Apathetic infant with persistent skin folds

5 Two-year-old girl with colic-like stomach pains and vomiting

6 Twelve-month-old boy comes for a health screening

7 Ten-year-old boy with painfully swollen knee

8 Girl with petechial dermatorrhagie

9 Infant with projectile vomiting

10 Young girl with recurrent shortness of breath

11 Fourteen-month-old toddler with "runny ear"

12 Three-year-old boy who has had contact with chicken pox

13 Five-year-old girl with a swollen jaw angle

14 Severely ill infant with cough and shortness of breath

15 Young girl with difficulty swallowing and fatigue

16 Two-year-old boy with coughing fit and cyanosis

17 Twelve-month-old boy with screaming fit and swollen testicles

18 Eight-year-old boy with macrohematuria

19 Boy almost 1-year-old with failure to thrive

20 Macrosomal newborn after obstructed labor with shoulder dystocia

21 Ten-year-old girl with fever and headache

22 Eight-year-old boy with high fever and rash

23 Five-year-old girl after fall from jungle gym

24 Infant with high fever, sucking weakness, and vomiting

25 Toddler burned by boiling water

26 Five-year-old girl with abdominal pain and anal itching

27 Fourteen-year-old girl with weight loss and social withdrawal

28 Newborn whose mother has poorly controlled diabetes mellitus

29 Five-year-old girl with hematuria

30 Three-year-old boy with numerous pigment spots

31 Feverish 2-year-old girl with pustulent crusty rash.

32 Hypotrophic newborn with abnormal phenotype

33 Five-year-old boy with knee pain and protective limping

34 Ten-year-old boy with scleral icterus

35 Fifteen-month-old child with an abrasion and no tetanus vaccination

36 Fifteen-year-old girl found unconscious with hypothermia

37 Two-year-old child who has ingested an unknown fluid

38 Five-day-old newborn with icterus and sucking weakness

39 Three-year-old girl refusing to eat

40 Newborn with morphological abnormalities

41 Two siblings with itching and eczematous changes on the skin of the neck and head

42 Consultation regarding "sudden infant death syndrome" (SIDS)

43 Five-year-old boy with high fever and abdominal pain

44 Four-year-old boy with recurrent urinary tract infections

45 Seven-year-old boy with pneumonia and bone pain

46 Four-year-old boy with fever and exanthema

47 Four-year-old girl with facial swelling

48 Five-year-old girl with pale skin and splenomegaly

49 Seven-year-old girl with headaches and abnormal behavior

50 Four-year-old boy with pain in right lower abdomen

51 Three-year-old girl with protective posture of right arm

52 Ten-year-old boy with tingling paresthesia, speech disorder, and headache

53 Sixteen-month-old boy with undescended testis

54 Eight-year-old boy with abdominal pain and weight loss

55 Premature birth in the 28th week of pregnancy with shortness of breath and abdominal pain on pressure

56 Five-year-old boy with intense abdominal pain

57 Two-year-old boy with a high fever, rash, and swollen joints

58 Four-month-old screaming infant with inguinal swelling

59 Nineteen-month-old girl with bloody diarrhea, hematomas, and anuria

60 Newborn with persistent cyanosis

61 Four-year-old boy with rattling breath and hypersalivation.

62 Six-year-old boy with failure to thrive and recurrent pulmonary infections

63 Fourteen-year-old girl who collapsed on a school trip

64 Three-year-old boy with deteriorating general condition and gastroenteritis

65 Healthy newborn delivered by cesarean section

66 Eleven-year-old boy with high fever and joint pain

67 Newborn boy with conspicuous genitals

68 Six-year-old girl with abnormal appearance

69 Premature baby with acute deterioration of general condition

70 Four-year-old girl with fatigue and difficulty concentrating

71 Exasperated parents with an 8-week-old screaming baby in the emergency department

72 Five-month-old infant with severe cough for the past few weeks

73 Fourteen-year-old girl with recurrent abdominal pain

74 Fifteen-year-old boy with no signs of progressing puberty

75 Two separate cases of infants following a fall from the changing table

76 Attention in the delivery room for newborns with congenital deformities

77 Newborn born in the 41st week of pregnancy after pathological CTG

78 Young boy with palpitations, reduced performance, and shortness of breath

79 Almost 2-year-old boy, with neurodermatitis

80 A young colleague during the pediatric admission examination

81 Five-month-old boy with therapy-resistant diarrhea

82 Thirteen-year-old school girl with petechiae in poor general condition

83 Fourteen-month-old boy with persistent nosebleed and hematomas

84 Uncontrollable 6-year-old boy with aggressive behavior

85 Twelve-year-old boy with painful swelling of the right foot

Answers and Comments

1 Meningitis

2 Krupp syndrome

3 Febrile seizure

4 Severe exsiccosis/toxicosis in acute gastroenteritis

5 Invagination

6 Health screenings and the health log

7 Lyme borreliosis

8 Schoenlein-Henoch purpura

9 Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.

10 Bronchial asthma

11 Acute otitis media

12 Varicella (chicken pox)

13 Lymphadenitis colli

14 Bronchiolitis

15 Infectious mononucleosis

16 Foreign body aspiration

17 Testicular torsion

18 Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis

19 Celiac disease

20 Injuries of birth trauma

21 Acute sinusitis

22 Childhood diseases: Scarlet fever, measles, mumps, pertussis

23 Cerebral concussion

24 Urosepsis/Urinary tract infection

25 Burns

26 Oxyuriasis

27 Anorexia nervosa

28 Diabetic (embryo-) fetopathy

29 Nephroblastoma (Wilms tumor)

30 Neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen disease)

31 Contagious impetigo in atopic dermatitis

32 Ullrich-Turner syndrome

33 Hip diseases in childhood

34 Hepatitis A

35 Immunizations

36 Alcohol intoxication and alcohol abuse

37 Intoxications

38 Neonatal icterus (Hyperbilirubinemia)

39 Gingivostomatitis herpetica (ulcerative)

40 Down syndrome (Trisomy 21)

41 Pediculosis capitis (Head lice)

42 Sudden infant death

43 Lobar pneumonia

44 Urinary tract infection and vesicoureterorenal reflux

45 Acute lymphatic leukemia

46 Kawasaki syndrome

47 Nephrotic syndrome

48 Spherocytosis (Hereditary spherical cell anemia)

49 Medulloblastoma

50 Acute appendicitis

51 Chassaignac's paralysis

52 Migraine

53 Undescended testis

54 Diabetes mellitus Type I

55 Respiratory distress syndrome, retinopathy of prematurity, NEC

56 Constipation

57 Systemic juvenile chronic arthritis (Still syndrome)

58 Inguinal hernia

59 Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS)

60 Congenital heart defect

61 Tonsillitis, peritonsillar abscess, rheumatic fever

62 Cystic fibrosis

63 Epileptic seizure

64 Salmonella enteritis

65 First care and first examination of a neonate

66 Influenza (the flu)

67 Hypospadia.

68 Normal and pathological development of puberty

69 Bacterial infections of the neonate

70 Adenoid hyperplasia

71 Counseling of parents of screaming child, breastfeeding, and nutrition

72 Tuberculosis

73 Cardinal symptom abdominal pain

74 Overweight and obesity

75 Falling from the changing table (craniocerebral trauma, child abuse)

76 Omphalocele and laparoschisis

77 Neonatal diseases caused by pre-birth injuries

78 Somatization syndrome

79 Neurodermitis

80 Anomalies in pediatric examination

neonatal reflexes

81 Neuroblastoma

82 Meningococcal sepsis/Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome

83 Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)

84 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

85 Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis

Appendix

Source of Images

Forms of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)

Childhood diseases

Body mass index

Important reference values

Index.

Notes:

"This book is an authorized translation of the 2nd German edition published and copyrighted 2008 by Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. Title of the German edition: Fallbuch Paediatrie"-- Galley.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783132053717

3132053716