Covers newborns, medicines, immunizations, behavior problems, rashes, and home care options for minor health problems

Your Child's Health

Parenting & Relationships

Schmitt, Barton D.

Parenting

Bantam]

Emergencies: --when to call your child's physician immediately -what to do in case of burns, bites, stings, poisoning, choking, and injuries Common Illnesses: -when it's safe to treat your child at home -step-by-step instructions on dealing with fever, infections, allergies, rashes, earaches, croup and other common ailments Behavior Problems: -proven strategies for colic, sleep disturbances, toilet training problems, thumbsucking, and the video game craze -no-nonsense discipline techniques for biting, temper tantrums, sibling fighting, and school refusal Health Promotion: From Birth Through Adolescence: -essential advice on newborn baby care, nutrition, cholesterol testing, immunizations, and sex education -ways of preventing spoiled children, picky eaters, overeating, tooth decay, accidents, and homework problems

Your Child's Health: The Parents' Guide to Symptoms, Emergencies, Common Illnesses, Behavior, and School Problems

Your Child's Health: The Parents' One-Stop Reference Guide to: Symptoms, Emergencies, Common Illnesses, Behavior Problems, and Healthy Development

Reference

This comprehensive volume presents both immunologic fundamentals as they relate to uveitis and the practical approach to the treatment of these diseases. Dr. Foster is the leader in the aggressive medical management of ocular inflammatory diseases, and the book reflects 25 years' experience in the world's busiest uveitis clinic. With contributions from 60 international specialists, this new title provides encyclopedic coverage of basic science, diagnosis, and clinical management, as well as thorough discussions of ocular inflammatory diseases in all regions of the world. The book is complete, dealing with basic science, diagnosis, and clinical management of ocular inflammtory diseases. Dr. Foster's focus on agressive treatment therapies, as well as his twenty-five years of experience at the Massachusetts Eye &amp; Ear Infirmary, makes him a true leader in the field. 1. PART I. BASIC PRINCIPLES 1. Introduction 2. The Uvea: Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology 3. Definition, Classification, Etiology, and Epidemiology 4. Philosophy 5. Basic Immunology PART II. PRINCIPLES OF DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY 6. Diagnosis of Uveitis 7. Imaging Studies 8. Treatment of Uveitis: Overview 9. Corticosteroids 10. Mydriatic and Cycloplegic Agents 11. Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs 12. Immunosuppressive Chemotherapy 13. Diagnostic Surgery 14. Therapeutic Surgery PART III. THE UVEITIS SYNDROMES - INFECTIOUS 15. Syphillis 16. Borreliosis 17. Bartonella 18. Tuberculosis 19. Leptosporosis 20. Brucellosis 21. Ocular Whippleís Disease 22. Rickettsial Diseases 23. Ocular Leprosy 24. Herpesvirsus 25. Rift Valley Fever 26. Measles 27. Rubella 28. Presumed Ocular Histoplasmosis Syndrome 29. Candidiasis 30. Coccidiodomycosis 31. Cryptococcosis 32. Sporotrichosis 33. Toxoplasmosis 34. Free Living Amoebas and Amoebiasis 35. Giardia Lamblia 36. Trypanosomiasis 37. Pneumocystotis 38. Ocular Toxocariasis 39. Ascariasis 40. Onchocerciasis 41. Loiasis 42. Cysticerosis 43. Diffuse Unilateral Subacute Neuroretinitis 44. Schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis) 45. Ophthalmomyiasis 46. Ophthalmia Nodosa 47. HIV-associated Uveitis PART IV. THE UVEITIS SYNDROMES -- MASQUERADE SYNDROMES 48. Masquerade Syndromes: Malignancies 49. Masquerade Syndromes: Endophthalmitis 50. Masquerade Syndromes: Miscellaneous PART V. THE UVEITIS SYNDROMES -- TRAUMA 51. Traumatic Uveitis PART VI. THE UVEITIS SYNDROMES -- AUTOIMMUNE 52. Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies 53. Systemic Lupus Erthematosus 54. Progressive Systemic Sclerosis 55. Giant Cell Arteritis 56. Adamantiades-Behcetís Disease 57. Polyarteritis Nodosa 58. Wegner's Granulomatosis 59. Eye Disease and Systemic Correlates in Relapsing Polychondritis 60. Antiphospholipid Syndrome 61. Fuchs' Heretochromic Iridocyclitis 62. Multiple Sclerosis 63. Sarcoidosis 64. Tubulointerstitial Nephritis and Uveitis (TINU) Syndrome 65. Birdshot Retinochroroidopathy 66. Sympathetic Opthalmia 67. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Syndrome 68. Multifocal Choroiditis and Panueveitis 69. Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome 70. Acute Posterior Multifocal Placoid Pigment Eipitheliopathy 71. Acute Retinal Pigment Epithelitis 72. Serpiginous Choroiditis 73. Subretinal Fibrosis and Uveitis Syndrome 74. Punctate Inner Choroidopathy 75. Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy 76. Lens-Induced Uveitis 77. Retinal Vasculitis 78. Intermediate Uveitis PART VII. THE UVEITIS SYNDROMES -- MEDICATION-INDUCED 79. Medication-Induced Uveitis

Diagnosis and Treatment of Uveitis

Medical Books

BROOKS

Pomerantz

Foster MD, C. Stephen

Vitale MD, Albert T.

Movsas

Rustgi

Medicine

Saunders

Since it first published in 1992, this popular resource has helped educate thousands of young patients and their caregivers about various health problems and the care that they require. Now, a special edition makes all the advantages of this resource available for patients whose first language is Spanish. With the help of these instruction sheets -- writen in clear, everyday Spanish -- patients and caregivers will be better informed and more cooperative with care instructions.

Instrucciones para Pacientes de Pediatria (Instructions for Pediatric Patients)

Schmitt MD, Barton D.

Univ. of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver. An A-to-Z guide to help medical offices and clinics perform telephone triage. Alphabetical and anatomical listings of problems and answers. Previous edition: c1998. Bulleted-outline format. For physicians, nurse practitioners, and physicians assistants. Wire-spiral binding.

Pediatric Telephone Protocols: Office Version (Spiral)

American Academy of Pediatrics+

...completely updated and revised edition presents easy-to follow protocols for more than 100 common inquiries

Administration & Medicine Economics

An AAP best sell used in practices nationwide, Pediatric Telephone Protocols delivers the physician-authored, peer-reviewed guidance your staff needs to answer parent calls with complete confidence. This new edition includes more than 125 decision-support protocols spanning the spectrum of common pediatric conditions and complaints. Steb-by-step guidance to simplify telephone triage, Give parents prompt assistance, accurate information, and trustworthy advice Rapidly determine whether patients must be seen immediately, seen by appointment, or treated at home Provide easy-to-understand home care instructions Maintain a consistent standard of phone care across your office Contain costs by making more efficient use of staff time and resources Eliminate unnecessary office visits and referrals to the emergency department Reduce the medical and legal risks associated with phone care. The new 13th edition brings you125+ thoroughly updated protocols accounting for more than 98% of common caller complaints for everything from abdominal pain to anaphylaxis, impetigo to insect bites, teething to thrush to trauma. All new protocols for Ear Infection: Follow-up Call, Influenza (H1N1) Exposure, Hernia--Umbilical, Skin Lump or Localized Swelling, Influenza--H1N1 (Swine Flu) and Sty. Urgent Updates-immediate Web access to protocol changes, Highlighted triage assessment questions to help gauge the urgency of patient problems and select the appropriate disposition-ED visit, immediate or future office visit, or home care, Parent-reassuring home care instructions, Prescription and nonprescription medication questions, dosages, and recommendations, Updated and expanded Users's Guide--a valuable training tool for triage and advice personnel, New Information on critical risk factors--for severe jaundice...serious head injuries...appendicitis...fatal asthma, Reproducible telephone log sheets--standardize call documentation, save charting time.

Pediatric Telephone Protocols: Office Version(11th Edition)

Pediatric Telephone Protocols: Office Version

Nursing

Amer. Academy of Pediatrics

Pediatric Telephone Protocols

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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