Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics

The seventh edition of this classic text has been extensively updated offering an indispensable, up-to-date, and practical resource which incorporates the latest guidelines concerning a wide array of conditions. Readers are given explicit management instructions to be used across the sites where sick and injured children now receive treatment. Fully updated with the most current knowledge and guidance, new topics include abdominal masses, abnormal movements, acute neuropsychiatric symptoms, brief resolved unexpected events, covid, disaster response in the emergency department, do not resuscitate/do not intubate orders, eating disorders, informed consent and assent, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, myocarditis, ophthalmoplegia, and transport. Successful and trusted for forty years, this manual is a key resource for pediatricians, emergency medicine physicians, family practitioners, allied health professionals, and trainees. A handy, how-to guide for delivering care to the increasing number of children being treated outside of tertiary care settings.