Signs & Symptoms in Pediatrics by Adam, Henry M.

Signs & Symptoms in Pediatrics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781610028202)

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Signs & Symptoms in Pediatrics by Adam, Henry M.

Signs & Symptoms in Pediatrics

$114.95
Signs & Symptoms in Pediatrics by Adam, Henry M.

Signs & Symptoms in Pediatrics

$114.95
Format: Paperback
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Completely updated and revised, the second edition outlines the key signs and symptoms associated with a wide range of illnesses affecting children, from common infections to rare disorders. Each chapter provides essential information on clinical presentation, differential diagnoses, and management strategies, making it an invaluable tool for clinicians in practice. The book's structured approach aids in the quick identification of pediatric issues, facilitating timely intervention and improving patient outcomes in pediatric care settings.

This practice-focused resource provides must-know information and expert advice for confidently addressing more than 80 diagnostic challenges.

Look here for the essentials on everything from abdominal, back, and chest pain...to fever, fatigue, headache, and heart murmurs...to rash, red eye, sleep disturbances, and speech and language concerns...plus much more. Coverage also extends to evaluation of mental health symptoms, including anxiety, depression, disruptive behavior, emotional disturbance, inattention and impulsivity, and self-injury.

Contents Include:
1. Abdominal Distention
2. Abdominal Pain
3. Alopecia and Hair Shaft Anomalies
4. Amenorrhea
5. Anemia and Pallor
6. Anxiety and Trauma-related Distress
7. Ataxia
8. Back Pain
9. Cardiac Arrhythmias
10. Chest Pain
11. Constipation
12. Cough
13. Cyanosis
14. Depressive Symptoms
15. Diarrhea and Steatorrhea
16. Disruptive Behavior and Aggression
17. Dizziness and Vertigo
18. Dysmenorrhea
19. Dysphagia
20. Dyspnea
21. Dysuria
22. Edema
23. Epistaxis
24. Extremity Pain
25. Facial Dysmorphism
26. Failure to Thrive: Pediatric Undernutrition
27. Families with Functional Impairments
28. Fatigue and Weakness
29. Fever
30. Fever of Unknown Origin
31. Foot and Leg Problems
32. Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
33. Headache
34. Hearing Loss
35. Heart Murmurs
36. Hematuria
37. Hemoptysis
38. Hepatomegaly
39. High Blood Pressure
40. Hirsutism, Hypertrichosis, and Precocious Sexual Hair Development
41. Hoarseness
42. Hyperhidrosis
43. Hypotonia
44. Inattention and Impulsivity
45. Irritability and Fussiness
46. Jaundice
47. Joint Pain
48. Learning Difficulty
49. Limp
50. Loss of Appetite
51. Lymphadenopathy
52. Macrocephaly
53. Medically Unexplained Symptoms
54. Microcephaly
55. Nonconvulsive Periodic Disorders
56. Odor (Unusual Urine and Body)
57. Petechiae and Purpura
58. Polyuria
59. Proteinuria
60. Pruritus
61. Puberty: Normal and Abnormal
62. Rash
63. Recurrent Infections
64. Red Eye/Pink Eye
65. School Absenteeism and School Refusal
66. Scrotal Swelling and Pain
67. Self-injury
68. Self-stimulating Behaviors
69. Short Stature
70. Sleep Disturbances (Nonspecific)
71. Speech and Language Concerns
72. Splenomegaly
73. Stress in Gender Diverse Youth
74. Stridor
75. Substance Use: The Role of the Pediatrician
76. Symptoms of Emotional Disturbance in Children Younger than 5 Years
77. Symptoms of Emotional Disturbance in Children Older than 5 Years
78. Syncope
79. Temper Tantrums and Breath-holding Spells
80. Tics
81. Torticollis
82. Vaginal Bleeding
83. Vaginal Discharge
84. Vomiting
85. Weight Loss
86. Wheezing



Author: Henry M. Adam
ISBN-10: 1610028201
ISBN-13: 9781610028202
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2025
Pages: 900
Format: Paperback
By Henry M. Adam
By Henry M. Adam
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Henry M. Adam, MD, FAAP: Until recently, Dr. Henry M. Adam was a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton College and studying as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow at Yale University, he graduated from the State University of NY-Upstate Medical Center in 1979, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Following pediatric residency training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC, he was a Fellow in general and behavioral pediatrics and then joined the faculty at Einstein.

Dr Adam has directed the Pediatric Outreach Program (1984-86), the AIDS Day Care Center (1987-90), and the Pediatric AIDS Primary Care Program (1990-94), all at Jacobi Medical Center. As an educator, Dr. Adam directed the pediatric residency training program at Montefiore Medical Center (1994-2002), has received the Lewis Fraad Teaching Award, and has been elected to the Leo Davidoff Teaching Society.

Jane Meschan Foy, MD, FAAP, has spent more than 35 years in pediatric primary care, public health, administration, and medical teaching. Her special interests include mental health services in pediatric primary care and school settings, access to health care for underserved populations, primary care of children with special health care needs, and residency training in mental health, community pediatrics, and advocacy.

Dr Foy received her bachelor of arts from Wellesley College and her doctorate of medicine from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in pediatrics at University of North Carolina hospitals. She has held several academic positions and is currently professor of pediatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and medical director of the Northwest Community Care Network (a regional network of North Carolina Medicaid providers). She is active in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), having served as chair of the AAP Task Force on Mental Health from 2004 to 2010 and currently serving as past chair of the AAP National Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health; member of the AAP Mental Health Leadership Work Group, and member of the AAP Board of Directors. Roles in other organizations have included the presidency of the North Carolina Pediatric Society (North Carolina Chapter of the AAP) from 1998 to 2000 and cofounder and director of the School Health Alliance for Forsyth County from 1999 to 2011.

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