New Releases by American Academy of Pediatrics

From America’s most trusted pediatric authority comes an indispensable, easy-to-use guide to helping your baby and young child flourish in the first five years of life—physically, mentally, and emotionally. The first five years of a child’s life are filled with major developmental and behavioral milestones. During this period your infant becomes an individual who has mastered a range of skills—from walking to making conversation–that prepares him or her to enter the world beyond home and family. For parents, this wondrous time provides an opportunity to help children fulfill their potential. The Wonder Years shows you how to make the most of it. Written in the same warm and accessible language that has endeared the Academy’s bestselling Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 to millions of parents for over fifteen years, this doctor-approved resource features a variety of fun-filled activities, tips, and hints, and offers the most dependable, authoritative, up-to-date information on child development, including: • Ideal patterns of growth at every stage—and normal variances • Parent-child activities that help you monitor and promote your child’s development • Easy ways to create an enriching home environment • A “behind-the-scenes” look at what’s going on in your child’s developing brain • Information on aiding children with special needs–from ADHD, autism, and learning disabilities to those who are gifted • Advice on consulting specialists, including nutritionists, occupational therapists, and counselors • Tips on safety and injury prevention • How factors like birth order and gender impact development With five hundred full-color photographs and illustrations, developmental time lines, charts, and graphs, this family-friendly book is the definitive guide no parent or caregiver can afford to be without.

Containing Real-Life Footage Of The Field, Emergency Departments, And Operating Rooms, This DVD Will Captivate Students And Show Them Skills They Could Only Learn By Watching A Real Procedure.

The Breastfeeding Book Your Doctor Recommends Why is breastfeeding best for my baby? Will I like it? What if it hurts? What happens when my maternity leave is over? Will I be able to use a breast pump? How can I make this work? The American Academy of Pediatrics, the organization that represents the nation’s finest pediatricians, answers these questions and many more in this invaluable resource to help you and your baby get the healthiest possible start. The benefits of breastfeeding will last a lifetime, for both you and your baby. Here is everything new mothers need to know about breastfeeding. From preparing for the first feeding to adjusting to home, family, and work life as a nursing mother, this comprehensive resource covers: • Preparing for breastfeeding before your baby is born • Breastfeeding benefits for mothers and babies, including the most recent neurological, psychological, and immunological research showing why breastfeeding enhances your infant’s immune system and protects against many common illnesses • Establishing a nursing routine and what to do when you return to work • The father’s role and creating a postpartum support network • Handling special situations, from C-sections to premature births • Breastfeeding beyond infancy • Weaning your baby • Solutions to common breastfeeding challenges • And much more Mothers everywhere will find this book an indispensable guide to one of life’s most important decisions.

In the present health care environment, primary care physicians are under pressure to refer fewer patients to specialists. They are expected to perform more diagnostic studies and treat more patients who have renal disease than ever before.As part of the for Primary Care line, this new resource will help primary care physicians diagnose and treat children with uncomplicated kidney problems and advise physicians when to refer to a specialist.

The new sixth edition of this manual on pediatric nutrition has been expanded considerably to reflect new scientific insights. Covering how nutrients influence and direct growth and development, as well as immediate and long-term health, from birth through adolescence. This evidence-based manual reflects the current policies and practices recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Nutrition. Includes greatly expanded appendices of more than 50 tables including dietary allowances, energy requirements, composition of human milk and infant formulas, food exchanges, and more. Includes more than 20 growth charts including charts for very low, and low birth weight infants, full-term infants, children and adolescents; and down syndrome growth charts.

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An exciting program designed specifically to teach prehospital professionals how to better assess and manage ill or injured children.

Provides physicians in all specialties with a concise reference on breastfeeding and human lactation. This handbook represents the collaborative efforts of the AAP and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, with additional critical review by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Enhance your awareness of the benefits and importance of breastfeeding and your knowledge of breastfeeding physiology and clinical practice with this excellent resource. Topics include benefits of breastfeeding, anatomy and physiology of breastfeeding, clinical management before and after conception, and breastfeeding maintenance. "All health professionals, not just physicians, who care for pregnant women, mothers, babies, and new families should have a copy of Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians." Diony Young, Birth, 2006;33:3.

This new quick reference guide offers easy-to-read explanations for how infectious diseases spread, how to prepare for illness, and how to limit the burden of illness associated with group settings. Handy fact sheets describe specific types of infectious diseases in common terms, methods of transmission, recommendations for both immediate intervention and child care exclusion and re-admittance criteria.

Developed by Prevent Blindness America, this manual will provide professionals with the opportunity to improve their vision screening skills and knowledge of common childhood vision disorders. In addition, health care professionals in the pediatric setting will learn about Physicians'' Current Procedural Terminology reimbursement code 99173 for vision screenings.

Medical Liability for Pediatricians includes practical, easy-to-use-tools: Selecting an insurance company; fifty questions to ask when buying insurance; Ten risk-management principles in telephone care; documentation dos and don''ts; warning signs of a potential lawsuit, how to be an effective witness; testiying as a medical expert witness; and much more. With comprehensive coverage of the broad issues facing pediatricians, you will find information on: risk identification / risk management / liability insurance/ patient safety / managed care liability / record keeping / newborn care / adolescent care / emergency medicine / vaccine adminstration / telemedicine / error reporting / informed consent / optimizing patient relationships / alternative dispute resolution / and much more.

This comprehensive guide to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) offers parents balanced, reassuring, and authoritative information to help them understand and manage this challenging and often misunderstood condition. Based on the American Academy of Pediatrics'' own clinical practice guidelines for ADHD and written in clear, accessible language, this book answers the common questions: How is ADHD diagnosed? What are today''s best treatment options? and Will my child outgrow ADHD? Accurate, up-to-date findings on evaluation and diagnosis, coexisting conditions, and unproven treatments are provided. Also addressed are behaviors associated with the teenage years and what schools can do to support children with the condition. ADHD management strategies that balance the roles of behavior therapy, medications, and parenting techniques are suggested.

The Complete Guide: Providing Telephone Triage and Advice in a Family Practice, this manual describes the steps to establishing and maintaining an effective, cost-efficient telephone care system.

This guide is a resource for paediatricians'' interactions with parents as well as local child care providers, which should help to promote the health and safety of children in these settings.

Intended as a physician education, training, and reference, this guide offers a complete manual, pocket-sized cue cards, plus supplements on developmental and psychosocial issues. It includes: physician visit schedule; pertinent topics; interview questions; and clinical approaches to common issues.

Applicable Standards From Caring for Our Children Compiled from the comprehensive Caring for Our Children, 2nd Edition, this pamphlet presents the standards for SIDS prevention in child care settings, providing critical information for child care providers, government policy makers, health care consultants, and parents. Included are standards for caregiver qualification and training, proper sleep position, bedding, and reporting, as well as related health policies

Wherever children are they may be at risk from a variety of environmental hazards. This book is designed to help everyone involved with children to identify, reduce and eliminate potential environmental hazards. It looks at asbestos, asthma, carbon monoxide, electric/magnetic fields and tobacco.

Contains evidence-based practice parameters and technical reprts on acute exacerbations of asthma in children, neurodiagnostic evaluation of the child with a first simple febrile seizure, management of acute gastroenteritis in young children, management of hyperbilirubinemia in the health term newborn, managing otitis media with effusion in young children.

The most complete, authoritative, and up-to-date guide to children''s symptoms available--from the most respected authority on child and adolescent heath care in America "Keep it close at hand." --Sesame Street Parents magazine When an infant or small child is ill, it is often very difficult for a parent to understand the nature of the problem. The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child''s Symptoms enables a parent to identify a symptom quickly, learn its possible cause, and determine how best to proceed. More than one hundred symptoms are listed alphabetically, and the text and illustrations that accompany each one are arranged in easy-to-follow charts. The Guide also includes: , Advice and guidelines on evaluating the seriousness of the symptom and what action a parent should take, complete with a specific section on when to consult a pediatrician , Comprehensive entries covering all children from birth through adolescence , Scores of sidebars on important topics such as recognizing language milestones, correcting eye problems, and stopping a nosebleed , An illustrated guide to basic first aid , Guidelines for safety and accident prevention Widely praised for its unprecedented user-friendly style and format, the hardcover edition of the Guide to Your Child''s Symptoms was a number one Library Journal reference bestseller and a selection of the Literary Guild. The book also won the 1998 American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award for Lay Readers, as well as a 1998 National Health Information Award.

This guide has been developed jointly by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and is designed for use by all personnel involved in the care of pregnant women, their foetuses, and their neonates.

From the nation''s leading specialists in pediatric medicine, here is the long-awaited companion volume to the bestselling Caring for Your Baby and Your Young Child, which has more than 500,000 copies in print. Winner of Child magazine''s "Child''s Best" award for parenting books. More than 100 illustrations.