American Academy of Pediatrics Textbook of Pediatric Care

Front Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
Contributors
Table of Contents
Part 1: Delivering Pediatric Health Care
	Chapter 1  HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM
	Chapter 2 PRACTICE ORGANIZATION
	Chapter 3 INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN PEDIATRIC PRACTICE
	Chapter 4 EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE
	Chapter 5 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN PRACTICE
	Chapter 6 MEDICAL HOME COLLABORATIVE CARE
	Chapter 7 PLANNED COORDINATED CARE TO SUPPORT THE MEDICAL HOME
	Chapter 8  HEALTH LITERACY
	Chapter 9 PARTNERING WITH FAMILIES IN HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS
	Chapter 10 FAMILY-CENTERED CARE OF HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN
	Chapter 11 ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES FOR THE PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN
	Chapter 12 EMERGENCY CARE
Part 2: Principles of Care
	Section One: Pediatric Assessment
		Chapter 13 PEDIATRIC HISTORY: ASSESSING THE CHILD
		Chapter 14 PEDIATRIC HISTORY: ASSESSING THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
		Chapter 15 PEDIATRIC HISTORY: ASSESSING FUNCTIONING AND MENTAL HEALTH
		Chapter 16 PEDIATRIC PHYSICAL EXAMINATION: INTERPRETATION OF FINDINGS
		Chapter 17 SPORTS PREPARTICIPATION PHYSICAL EVALUATION
		Chapter 18 PEDIATRIC IMAGING
	Section Two: Preventive Pediatrics
		Chapter 19 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: THE ROLE OF THE PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN
		Chapter 20 IMMUNIZATIONS
		Community Health
			Chapter 21 THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF THE PRIMARY CARE PEDIATRICIAN
			Chapter 22 PROMOTING THE HEALTH OF YOUNG CHILDREN
			Chapter 23 PROMOTING THE HEALTH OF SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN
			Chapter 24 PROMOTING THE HEALTH OF ADOLESCENTS
		Screening
			Chapter 25 SCREENING: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
			Chapter 26 AUDITORY SCREENING
			Chapter 27 SCREENING FOR ANEMIA
			Chapter 28 VISION SCREENING
			Chapter 29 SCREENING FOR GENETIC-METABOLIC DISEASES
			Chapter 30 USE OF URINALYSIS AND URINE CULTURE IN SCREENING
		Health Promotion in Practice
			Chapter 31 APPLYING BEHAVIOR CHANGE SCIENCE
			Chapter 32 FAMILY SUPPORT
			Chapter 33 HEALTHY CHILD DEVELOPMENT
			Chapter 34 MENTAL HEALTH
			Chapter 35 HEALTHY WEIGHT
			Chapter 36 HEALTHY NUTRITION: INFANTS
			Chapter 37 HEALTHY NUTRITION: CHILDREN
			Chapter 38 HEALTHY NUTRITION: ADOLESCENTS
			Chapter 39 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
			Chapter 40 ORAL HEALTH
			Chapter 41 HEALTHY SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT AND SEXUALITY
			Chapter 42 SAFETY AND INJURY PREVENTION
			Chapter 43 HEALTHY USE OF MEDIA
			Chapter 44 VIOLENCE PREVENTION
			Chapter 45 CONDUCTING THE HEALTH SUPERVISION VISIT
	Section Three: General Management of Children With Health and Behavioral Problems
		Chapter 46 EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
		Chapter 47 ADHERENCE TO PEDIATRIC HEALTH CARE RECOMMENDATIONS
		Chapter 48 PROVIDING CULTURALLY EFFECTIVE CARE
		Chapter 49 DISCUSSING SERIOUS SYMPTOMS, RESULTS, AND DIAGNOSES WITH THE PATIENT AND FAMILY
		Chapter 50 CARE OF CHILDREN WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
		Chapter 51 CARE OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS
		Chapter 52 SCHOOL-RELATED ISSUES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS
		Chapter 53 PHYSIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF FEVER
		Chapter 54 MANAGING ACUTE PAIN IN CHILDREN
		Chapter 55 MANAGING CHRONIC PAIN IN CHILDREN
		Chapter 56 SELF-REGULATION THERAPIES: HYPNOSIS AND BIOFEEDBACK
		Chapter 57 COMPLEMENTARY AND INTEGRATIVE MEDICAL THERAPIES
		Chapter 58 FLUIDS, ELECTROLYTES, AND ACID-BASE COMPOSITION
		Chapter 59 BLOOD PRODUCTS AND THEIR USES
		Chapter 60 ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY
		Chapter 61 PSYCHOSOCIAL THERAPIES
		Chapter 62 PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS IN PRIMARY CARE PEDIATRICS
		Chapter 63 PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT
		Chapter 64 POSTOPERATIVE CARE
		Chapter 65 PEDIATRIC REHABILITATION
		Chapter 66 TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD
		Chapter 67 PALLIATIVE, END-OF-LIFE, AND BEREAVEMENT CARE
	Section Four: Care of Special Populations
		Chapter 68 CHILDREN EXPOSED TO ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
		Chapter 69 CARING FOR FAMILIES NEW TO THE UNITED STATES
		Chapter 70 ADOPTION
		Chapter 71 CHILDREN OF DIVORCE
		Chapter 72 CHILDREN IN FOSTER OR KINSHIP CARE
		Chapter 73 CHILDREN IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
		Chapter 74  CHILDREN IN SELF-CARE
		Chapter 75 GAY- AND LESBIAN-PARENTED FAMILIES
		Chapter 76 LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL YOUTH
		Chapter 77 CHILDREN IN MILITARY FAMILIES
		Chapter 78 HOMELESS CHILDREN
		Chapter 79 CHILDREN IN POVERTY
Part 3: Maternal and Fetal Health: Effect on Pregnancy Outcomes and Perinatal Health
	Chapter 80 PERINATAL PREVENTIVE CARE: FETAL ASSESSMENT
	Chapter 81 ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, MULTIPLEBIRTHS, AND PREGNANCY OUTCOMES
	Chapter 82 PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS
	Chapter 83 FETAL INTERVENTIONS
	Chapter 84 MATERNAL DEPRESSION
Part 4: Care of Healthy and High-Risk Infants
	Section One: Routine Care Issues
		Chapter 85 MEDICAL-LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE CARE OF NEWBORNS
		Chapter 86 PRENATAL PEDIATRIC VISIT
		Chapter 87 CARE OF THE NEWBORN AFTER DELIVERY
		Chapter 88 BREASTFEEDING THE NEWBORN
		Chapter 89 THE CIRCUMCISION DECISION
		Chapter 90 CARE OF THE LATE PRETERM INFANT
		Chapter 91 HOSPITAL DISCHARGE OF THE HEALTHY TERM AND LATE PRETERM INFANT
		Chapter 92 FOLLOW-UP CARE OF THE HEALTHY NEWBORN
	Section Two: Assessment and Physical Examination of the Newborn
		Chapter 93  MATERNAL MEDICAL HISTORY
		Chapter 94 PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF THE NEWBORN
		Chapter 95 NEONATAL SKIN
		Chapter 96 COMMON CONGENITAL ANOMALIES
		Chapter 97 POSTNATAL ASSESSMENT OF COMMON PRENATAL SONOGRAPHIC FINDINGS
	Section Three: Neonatal Medical Conditions
		Chapter 98 ABNORMALITIES OF FETAL GROWTH
		Chapter 99 NEONATAL JAUNDICE
		Chapter 100 RESPIRATORY DISTRESS AND BREATHING DISORDERS IN THE NEWBORN
		Chapter 101 THE NEWBORN WITH A HEART MURMUR OR CYANOSIS
		Chapter 102 THE NEWBORN AT RISK FOR INFECTION
		Chapter 103 THE NEWBORN WITH HEMATOLOGIC ABNORMALITIES
		Chapter 104 PRENATAL DRUG USE: NEONATAL EFFECTS AND THE DRUG WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME
		Chapter 105 TRANSIENT METABOLIC DISTURBANCES IN THE NEWBORN
		Chapter 106 SPECIFIC CONGENITAL METABOLIC DISEASES
		Chapter 107 THE NEWBORN WITH NEUROLOGIC FINDINGS
		Chapter 108 SURGICAL EMERGENCIES OF THE CHEST AND ABDOMEN IN THE NEWBORN
	Section Four: Perinatal Care: Caring for the High-Risk Infant
		Chapter 109 ASSESSMENT AND STABILIZATION AT DELIVERY
		Chapter 110 IDENTIFYING THE NEWBORN WHO REQUIRES SPECIALIZED CARE
		Chapter 111 CARE OF THE SICK OR PREMATURE INFANT BEFORE TRANSPORT
		Chapter 112 CONTINUING CARE OF THE INFANT AFTER TRANSFER FROM NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE
		Chapter 113 DISCHARGE PLANNING FOR THE HIGH-RISK NEWBORN REQUIRING INTENSIVE CARE
		Chapter 114 FOLLOW-UP CARE OF THE GRADUATE FROM NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE
	Section Five: Neonatal Outcomes
		Chapter 115 HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES OF VERY PRETERM AND VERY LOW-BIRTH-WEIGHT INFANTS
		Chapter 116 HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES OF SELECTED MEDICALLY COMPLEX NEONATES
	Section Six: Supporting Families During Perinatal Illness and Death
		Chapter 117 SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES WHOSE INFANT IS SICK OR DYING
Part 5: Adolescence
	Chapter 118 CHALLENGES OF HEALTH CARE DELIVERY TO ADOLESCENTS
	Chapter 119 INTERVIEWING ADOLESCENTS
	Chapter 120 COUNSELING PARENTS OF ADOLESCENTS
	Chapter 121 ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY
	Chapter 122 ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY AND PARENTHOOD
	Chapter 123 CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION
Part 6: Presenting Signs  and Symptoms
	Chapter 124 ABDOMINAL DISTENTION
	Chapter 125 ABDOMINAL PAIN
	Chapter 126 ALOPECIA AND HAIR SHAFT ANOMALIES
	Chapter 127 
AMENORRHEA
	Chapter 128  ANEMIA AND PALLOR
	Chapter 129 ANXIETY
	Chapter 130 
ATAXIA
	Chapter 131  BACK PAIN
	Chapter 132 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS
	Chapter 133  CHEST PAIN
	Chapter 134 
CONSTIPATION
	Chapter 135 
COUGH
	Chapter 136 CYANOSIS
	Chapter 137 
DEPRESSION
	Chapter 138  DIARRHEA AND STEATORRHEA
	Chapter 139 DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR AND AGGRESSION
	Chapter 140 DIZZINESS AND VERTIGO
	Chapter 141 DYSMENORRHEA
	Chapter 142 DYSPHAGIA
	Chapter 143 DYSPNEA
	Chapter 144 DYSURIA
	Chapter 145 EDEMA
	Chapter 146 EPISTAXIS
	Chapter 147 EXTREMITY PAIN
	Chapter 148 FACIAL DYSMORPHISM
	Chapter 149 FAILURE TO THRIVE: PEDIATRIC UNDERNUTRITION
	Chapter 150 FAMILY DYSFUNCTION
	Chapter 151 FATIGUE AND WEAKNESS
	Chapter 152 FEVER
	Chapter 153 FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
	Chapter 154 FOOT AND LEG PROBLEMS
	Chapter 155 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE
	Chapter 156 GENDER EXPRESSION AND IDENTITY ISSUES
	Chapter 157 HEADACHE
	Chapter 158 HEARING LOSS
	Chapter 159 HEART MURMURS
	Chapter 160 HEMATURIA
	Chapter 161 HEMOPTYSIS
	Chapter 162 HEPATOMEGALY
	Chapter 163 HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
	Chapter 164 HIRSUTISM, HYPERTRICHOSIS, AND PRECOCIOUS SEXUAL HAIR DEVELOPMENT
	Chapter 165 HOARSENESS
	Chapter 166 HYPERHIDROSIS
	Chapter 167 HYPOTONIA
	Chapter 168 INATTENTION AND IMPULSIVITY
	Chapter 169 IRRITABILITY AND FUSSINESS
	Chapter 170 JAUNDICE
	Chapter 171 JOINT PAIN
	Chapter 172 LEARNING DIFFICULTY
	Chapter 173 LIMP
	Chapter 174 LOSS OF APPETITE
	Chapter 175 LYMPHADENOPATHY
	Chapter 176 MACROCEPHALY
	Chapter 177 MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS
	Chapter 178 MICROCEPHALY
	Chapter 179 NONCONVULSIVE PERIODIC DISORDERS
	Chapter 180 ODOR (UNUSUAL URINE AND BODY)
	Chapter 181 PETECHIAE AND PURPURA
	Chapter 182 POLYURIA
	Chapter 183 PROTEINURIA
	Chapter 184 PRURITUS
	Chapter 185 PUBERTY: NORMAL AND ABNORMAL
	Chapter 186 RASH
	Chapter 187 RECURRENT INFECTIONS
	Chapter 188 RED EYE/PINK EYE
	Chapter 189 SCHOOL ABSENTEEISM AND SCHOOL REFUSAL
	Chapter 190 SCROTAL SWELLING AND PAIN
	Chapter 191 SELF-HARM
	Chapter 192 SELF-STIMULATING BEHAVIORS
	Chapter 193 SHORT STATURE
	Chapter 194 SLEEP DISTURBANCES (NONSPECIFIC)
	Chapter 195 SPEECH AND LANGUAGE CONCERNS
	Chapter 196 SPLENOMEGALY
	Chapter 197 STRIDOR
	Chapter 198 SUBSTANCE USE: INITIAL APPROACH IN PRIMARY CARE
	Chapter 199 SYMPTOMS OF EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE IN YOUNG CHILDREN
	Chapter 200 SYNCOPE
	Chapter 201 TEMPER TANTRUMS AND BREATH-HOLDING SPELLS
	Chapter 202 TICS
	Chapter 203 TORTICOLLIS
	Chapter 204 VAGINAL BLEEDING
	Chapter 205 VAGINAL DISCHARGE
	Chapter 206 VOMITING
	Chapter 207 WEIGHT LOSS
	Chapter 208 WHEEZING
Part 7: Specific Clinical Problems
	Chapter 209 ACNE
	Chapter 210 ADJUSTMENT DISORDER IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
	Chapter 211 ADRENAL DYSFUNCTION
	Chapter 212 ALLERGIC RHINITIS
	Chapter 213 ALTITUDE SICKNESS
	Chapter 214 AMBLYOPIA AND STRABISMUS
	Chapter 215 ANIMAL AND HUMAN BITES
	Chapter 216 ANOREXIA NERVOSA, BULIMIA NERVOSA, AND OTHER EATING DISORDERS
	Chapter 217 APPARENT LIFE-THREATENING EVENTS
	Chapter 218 ASTHMA
	Chapter 219 ATOPIC DERMATITIS
	Chapter 220 ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
	Chapter 221 AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
	Chapter 222 BACTERIAL SKIN INFECTIONS
	Chapter 223 BRAIN TUMORS
	Chapter 224 BRONCHIOLITIS
	Chapter 225 CANCERS IN CHILDHOOD
	Chapter 226 CEREBRAL PALSY
	Chapter 227 CHICKENPOX
	Chapter 228 CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
	Chapter 229 CLEFT LIP AND CLEFT PALATE
	Chapter 230 COAGULATION DISORDERS
	Chapter 231 COLIC
	Chapter 232 COLORECTAL DISORDERS
	Chapter 233 COMMON COLD
	Chapter 234 CONGENITAL AND ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE
	Chapter 235 CONTACT DERMATITIS
	Chapter 236 CONTAGIOUS EXANTHEMATOUS DISEASES
	Chapter 237 CONVERSION REACTIONS AND HYSTERIA
	Chapter 238 CYSTIC AND SOLID MASSES OF THE FACE AND NECK
	Chapter 239 CYSTIC FIBROSIS
	Chapter 240 DENTAL PROBLEMS
	Chapter 241 DIABETES MELLITUS
	Chapter 242 DIAPER RASH
	Chapter 243 DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT
	Chapter 244 DOWN SYNDROME: MANAGING THE CHILD AND FAMILY
	Chapter 245 DRUG ERUPTIONS, ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME, STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME
	Chapter 246 DRUG INTERACTIONS AND ADVERSE EFFECTS
	Chapter 247 ENCOPRESIS
	Chapter 248 ENTEROVIRUS AND EVOLVING INFECTIONS
	Chapter 249 ENURESIS
	Chapter 250 FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS
	Chapter 251 FOREIGN BODIES OF THE EAR, NOSE, AIRWAY, AND ESOPHAGUS
	Chapter 252 FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS
	Chapter 253 FRAGILE X SYNDROME
	Chapter 254 FUNGAL INFECTIONS (SYSTEMIC)
	Chapter 255 GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
	Chapter 256 GASTROINTESTINAL ALLERGY
	Chapter 257 GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
	Chapter 258 GIARDIASIS
	Chapter 259 GLUTEN-SENSITIVE ENTEROPATHY (CELIAC SPRUE)
	Chapter 260 GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME
	Chapter 261 HEMANGIOMAS
	Chapter 262 HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES AND SICKLE CELL DISEASE
	Chapter 263 HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME
	Chapter 264 HENOCH-SCHÖNLEIN PURPURA
	Chapter 265 HEPATITIS
	Chapter 266 HERPES INFECTIONS
	Chapter 267 HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-6 AND HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-7 INFECTIONS
	Chapter 268 HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION AND ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME
	Chapter 269 HYDROCEPHALUS
	Chapter 270 HYPERTHYROIDISM
	Chapter 271 HYPOCALCEMIA, HYPERCALCEMIA, AND HYPERCALCIURIA
	Chapter 272 HYPOSPADIAS, EPISPADIAS, AND CRYPTORCHIDISM
	Chapter 273 HYPOTHYROIDISM
	Chapter 274 IMMUNE (IDIOPATHIC) THROMBOCYTOPENIA PURPURA
	Chapter 275 INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS AND OTHER EPSTEIN-BARR VIRAL INFECTIONS
	Chapter 276 INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
	Chapter 277 INSECT BITES AND INFESTATIONS
	Chapter 278 INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
	Chapter 279 IRON-DEFICIENCY ANEMIA
	Chapter 280 KAWASAKI DISEASE
	Chapter 281 KLINEFELTER SYNDROME
	Chapter 282 LABIAL ADHESIONS
	Chapter 283 LEAD POISONING
	Chapter 284 LEARNING DISORDERS
	Chapter 285 LEUKEMIAS
	Chapter 286 LIPID ABNORMALITIES
	Chapter 287 LYME DISEASE
	Chapter 288 MEDICAL ERRORS, ADVERSE EVENTS, AND PATIENT SAFETY
	Chapter 289 MENINGITIS
	Chapter 290 MENINGOENCEPHALITIS
	Chapter 291 METABOLIC DISORDERS BEYOND THE NEWBORN PERIOD
	Chapter 292 MÜNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY: MEDICAL CHILD ABUSE
	Chapter 293 MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
	Chapter 294 NEPHRITIS
	Chapter 295 NEPHROTIC SYNDROME
	Chapter 296 NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS
	Chapter 297 NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES
	Chapter 298 OBESITY AND METABOLIC SYNDROME
	Chapter 299 OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY AND VESICOURETERAL REFLUX
	Chapter 300 OCULAR TRAUMA
	Chapter 301 OLIGURIA AND ANURIA
	Chapter 302 OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER
	Chapter 303 OSTEOCHONDROSES
	Chapter 304 OSTEOMYELITIS
	Chapter 305 OTITIS MEDIA AND OTITIS EXTERNA
	Chapter 306 PANCREATITIS
	Chapter 307 PAPULOSQUAMOUS DISEASES
	Chapter 308 PARASITIC INFECTIONS
	Chapter 309 PECTUS EXCAVATUM AND PECTUS CARINATUM
	Chapter 310 PERTUSSIS (WHOOPING COUGH)
	Chapter 311 PHARYNGITIS AND TONSILLITIS
	Chapter 312 PHIMOSIS
	Chapter 313 PIERRE ROBIN SEQUENCE
	Chapter 314 PINWORM INFESTATIONS
	Chapter 315 PNEUMONIA
	Chapter 316 POSITIONAL DEFORMATIONAL PLAGIOCEPHALY
	Chapter 317 POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
	Chapter 318 PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME
	Chapter 319 PRESEPTAL AND ORBITAL CELLULITIS
	Chapter 320 PSORIASIS
	Chapter 321 PYLORIC STENOSIS
	Chapter 322 RENAL TUBULAR ACIDOSIS
	Chapter 323 RHEUMATIC FEVER
	Chapter 324 RHEUMATOLOGIC DISEASES
	Chapter 325 ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER
	Chapter 326 SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS
	Chapter 327 SEIZURE DISORDERS
	Chapter 328 SEPTIC ARTHRITIS
	Chapter 329 SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN
	Chapter 330 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
	Chapter 331 SINUSITIS
	Chapter 332 SPINA BIFIDA
	Chapter 333 SPINAL DEFORMITIES
	Chapter 334 SPORTS MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURIES
	Chapter 335 STOMATITIS
	Chapter 336 SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS
	Chapter 337 SUDDEN UNEXPECTED INFANT DEATH
	Chapter 338 TOBACCO AND NICOTINE USE
	Chapter 339 TONSILLECTOMY AND ADENOIDECTOMY
	Chapter 340 TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME
	Chapter 341 TUBERCULOSIS
	Chapter 342 TURNER SYNDROME AND NOONAN SYNDROME
	Chapter 343 UMBILICAL ANOMALIES
	Chapter 344 URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS
	Chapter 345 VERRUCAE (WARTS)
	Chapter 346 VITAMIN D INADEQUACY
Part 8: Critical Situations
	Chapter 347 ACUTE SURGICAL ABDOMEN
	Chapter 348 AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION
	Chapter 349 ALTERED MENTAL STATUS
	Chapter 350 ANAPHYLAXIS
	Chapter 351 APPENDICITIS
	Chapter 352 CROUP (ACUTE LARYNGOTRACHEOBRONCHITIS)
	Chapter 353 DEHYDRATION
	Chapter 354 DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS
	Chapter 355 DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION
	Chapter 356 DROWNING AND NEAR DROWNING (SUBMERSION INJURIES)
	Chapter 357 DRUG OVERDOSE
	Chapter 358 ENVENOMATIONS
	Chapter 359 ESOPHAGEAL CAUSTIC INJURY
	Chapter 360 HEAD INJURIES
	Chapter 361 HEART FAILURE
	Chapter 362 HYPERTENSIVE EMERGENCIES
	Chapter 363 HYPOGLYCEMIA
	Chapter 364 INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE
	Chapter 365 ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY
	Chapter 366 MENINGOCOCCEMIA
	Chapter 367 PHYSICAL ABUSE AND NEGLECT
	Chapter 368 PNEUMOTHORAX AND PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM
	Chapter 369 POISONING
	Chapter 370 PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES: SUICIDALITY, AGITATION, PSYCHOSIS, AND DISASTER EXPOSURE
	Chapter 371 RAPE
	Chapter 372 SEVERE ACUTE ASTHMA (STATUS ASTHMATICUS)
	Chapter 373 SHOCK
	Chapter 374 STATUS EPILEPTICUS
	Chapter 375 THERMAL INJURIES
Appendix A: PEDIATRIC CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
Appendix B: OUTPATIENT PROCEDURES
Appendix C: FORMULAS AND REFERENCE RANGE VALUES
Index
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