Each year, Advances in Pediatrics focuses on providing current clinical information on important topics in pediatrics. Dr. Carol Berkowitz and her editorial board, comprised of top experts in the field, have assembled authors to provide updates on the following topics: Evaluation and Management of Febrile Infants; Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Ultrasonography; The Patient-Centered Pediatric Emergency Department; Health Considerations of Refuge and Immigrant Children; Management of scoliosis; Health and Wellness for LGBTQ Youth; Sexually exploited children: recognizing and addressing; Movement disorders in children; Childhood trauma management in primary care; Feeding issues in young children; Physician Well-being and Burnout; New Molecular Methods for Diagnosing Infectious Diseases; Parental refusal: treatments, procedures and vaccines; Pediatric oncology in the ICU setting; Diaphragmatic hernia: Management and Outcomes; and Global Health and Pediatric Education: Opportunities and Challenges. Readers will come away with the clinical information that supplements their professional knowledge so they can make informed clinical decisions that improve patient outcomes.
1. Introduction - p. xix 2. Collateral Damage: Mitigating Toxic Stress Secondary to Parental Military Service in Post-9/11 Military-Connected Children - p. 1 3. Using the Attachment Relationship and Positive Parenting Principles to Build Childhood Resilience - p. 15 4. Meningococcal Infections in Children and Adolescents: Update and Prevention - p. 29 5. Pediatric Hepatitis C - p. 47 6. Advances in Sickle Cell Disease Management - p. 57 7. Type 1 Diabetes in Youth and Technology-Based Advances in Management - p. 73 8. Update on Precocious Puberty: Who Should Be Treated? - p. 93 9. Urolithiasis in Children - p. 105 10. Ovarian Masses and Torsion: New Approaches for Ovarian Salvage - p. 113 11. Approaches for Closing Gastroschisis - p. 123 12. Inguinal and Other Hernias - p. 131 13. Surgical Pulmonary and Pleural Diseases in Children: Lung Malformations, Empyema, and Spontaneous Pneumothorax - p. 145 14. Overuse Injuries in Pediatric Athletes - p. 171 15. New Developments in Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - p. 183
Each year, Advances in Pediatrics focuses on providing current clinical information on important topics in pediatrics. Dr. Carol Berkowitz and her editorial board, comprised of top experts in the field, have assembled authors to provide updates on the following topics: Evaluation and Management of Febrile Infants; Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Ultrasonography; The Patient-Centered Pediatric Emergency Department; Health Considerations of Refuge and Immigrant Children; Management of scoliosis; Health and Wellness for LGBTQ Youth; Sexually exploited children: recognizing and addressing; Movement disorders in children; Childhood trauma management in primary care; Feeding issues in young children; Physician Well-being and Burnout; New Molecular Methods for Diagnosing Infectious Diseases; Parental refusal: treatments, procedures and vaccines; Pediatric oncology in the ICU setting; Diaphragmatic hernia: Management and Outcomes; and Global Health and Pediatric Education: Opportunities and Challenges. Readers will come away with the clinical information that supplements their professional knowledge so they can make informed clinical decisions that improve patient outcomes.
1. Introduction - p. xix 2. Collateral Damage: Mitigating Toxic Stress Secondary to Parental Military Service in Post-9/11 Military-Connected Children - p. 1 3. Using the Attachment Relationship and Positive Parenting Principles to Build Childhood Resilience - p. 15 4. Meningococcal Infections in Children and Adolescents: Update and Prevention - p. 29 5. Pediatric Hepatitis C - p. 47 6. Advances in Sickle Cell Disease Management - p. 57 7. Type 1 Diabetes in Youth and Technology-Based Advances in Management - p. 73 8. Update on Precocious Puberty: Who Should Be Treated? - p. 93 9. Urolithiasis in Children - p. 105 10. Ovarian Masses and Torsion: New Approaches for Ovarian Salvage - p. 113 11. Approaches for Closing Gastroschisis - p. 123 12. Inguinal and Other Hernias - p. 131 13. Surgical Pulmonary and Pleural Diseases in Children: Lung Malformations, Empyema, and Spontaneous Pneumothorax - p. 145 14. Overuse Injuries in Pediatric Athletes - p. 171 15. New Developments in Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - p. 183