Most Popular Books by American Academy of Pediatrics

The guide to every aspect of infant care that’s most recommended by pediatricians and trusted by parents, with over four million copies sold—now in a completely revised and updated sixth edition! From the American Academy of Pediatrics, the nation’s most authoritative name in childcare, comes the definitive all-in-one resource Your Baby’s First Year. Featuring new and expanded content, including the latest reports on cutting-edge research into early brain development, the fully illustrated sixth edition of Your Baby’s First Year includes • Guidelines for prenatal and newborn care, with spotlights on maternal nutrition, exercise, and screening tests during pregnancy • Milestones for physical, emotional, social, and cognitive growth, as well as visual, hearing, language, and movement milestones • Cutting-edge research on early brain development and how babies and young children think. • A complete health encyclopedia covering injuries, illnesses, and congenital diseases • An in-depth discussion on breastfeeding, including its benefits, techniques, and challenges • Revised nutrition recommendations, including the importance of early introduction of allergenic foods and obesity prevention tips • Tips for choosing childcare programs • Updated safety standards: the very latest AAP recommendations, from CPR instruction, safe sleep, and immunizations, to childproofing tips, car safety seats, and toy safety • Safety checks for home, including bathing, preventing drowning, poisoning, choking, burns, and falls • And much more Comprehensive, reassuring, and up-to-date, Your Baby’s First Year is an indispensable guide for parents everywhere.

For the pediatric provider, coder, and biller, here''s the most helpful and easy-to use manual on ICD-10-CM yet. Featuring a lazer-sharp pediatrics focus, it provides codes and documentation guidelines in a simplified yet familiar format. Purpose-built to streamline the coding process, the manual condenses the vast ICD-10-CM code set into 406 pages of pediatrics-related codes and guidelines. The guidelines are included directly at the chapter and code level, helping ensure that coders will always use the right codes in the right circumstances. Tabular, indexed, navigation helps you find needed items fast. Features include Integrated codes and guidelines Simplified yet familiar layout Tabular and indexed navigation Pediatric-focused and provider-based guidance And more!

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.

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.

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Based on key content from the American Academy of Pediatric''s Red Book(r), the Red Book Atlas, 2nd editon provides essential information and recommendations for diagnosing and treating more than 100 pediatric conditions. Look here for all the essentials on everything from actinomycosis to amebiasis to anthrax; hepatitis to herpes to hookworm; tuberculosis to tularemia to typhus. It streamlines disease recognition and clinical decision-making withmore than 800 full-color images adjacent to concise diagnostic and treatment guidelines. Includes 300 new images! 27 new chapters include: Astrovirus Bacillus cereus Blastocystis hominis Burkholderia Human Calicivirus Chlamydophila pneumonia Chlamydophilia psittaci Clostridium perfringens Coronavirus Cryptococcus neoformans Infections (Cryptococcosis) Cryptosporidiosis Dengue Fusobacterium Infections Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Human Herpesvirus 8 Legionella Human Metapneumovirus Infections Microsporidia Infections Parasitic Diseases Prion Diseases Q Fever Rickettsial Diseases Other Tapeworm Infections (including Hydatid Diseases) Other Vibrio Infections Essential information on each condition is presented in the precise sequence needed in the clinical setting: Clinical manifestations Etiology Epidemiology Incubation period Diagnostic tests Treatment "

Purpose-built to streamline the coding process, this important guide condenses the vast ICD-10-CM code set into 546 pages of pediatric-centered guidelines and codes.Completely updated and revised 4th edition.

Addressed especially to community pediatricians, but also useful to other health workers, this manual discusses aspects of day care that require a physician''s attention. Chapter I historically traces the positive effect of a nurturing environment upon the development of the infant and child, covering the period from the early 1900s to the present. Chapter II sets forth precise suggestions for program components advancing child health. Chapter III depicts the role of the pediatrician in advocating day care adapted to serve children with special needs effectively, and discusses several settings in which children with different disabilities can be accommodated. Chapter IV addresses the issue of child abuse. Chapter V describes measures that retard the spread of contagious diseases in day care facilities and makes suggestions for the prevention of infection. Chapter VI reviews factors that increase the risk of injury to children in the day care setting. Rules are provided for the maintenance of a safe environment and advice is given for handling injuries that do occur. Chapters VII, VIII, and IX supply information intended to increase health professionals'' ability to serve effectively as consultants. Many related materials are appended, such as sample letters, forms, and several checklists, but also including guidelines, recommendations, resource lists, glossaries, brief discussions, and a national directory of state offices providing advice on safety. (RH)

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.

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.

"The School Health guide, prepared by the Committee on School Health, addresses two important aspects of a child''s life: health and education. It has been written to acquaint health professionals with the educational and administrative guidelines by which school systems operate and to provide educators additional medical/nursing knowledge concerning the health of school children" -- Foreword.

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.

Part of the AM:STARs series, this new issue includes content on clinical GI challenges in the adolescent.

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.

Identifies a variety of sleep problems in children from infancy through adolescence, and provides practical strategies for establishing good sleep habits and solving common sleep problems such as difficulties falling asleep and night fears.

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.

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.

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 year''s completely updated 24th edition includes at changes in CPT codes as well as a new section titled "Coding Basics and Business Essentials" and a new chapter centering on mental and behavioral health services.

Significantly revised and updated, the new second edition updates the science on neonatal encephalopathy presented in the 1st edition. The new 2nd edition recommends a broad evaluation of all potential contributing factors in every case of neonatal encephalopathy, including maternal medical history, obstetric and intrapartum factors, and placental pathology. This recommendation is a shift from the 2003 report, which focused on determining whether or not a hypoxic-ischemic event was the cause of neonatal encephalopathy. Includes new sections on - Placental pathology - Focal ischemic stroke - Neonatal interventions - Patient safety - Significant advances in neuroimaging This report will assist the clinician in evaluating a newborn with encephalopathy to assist in defining both the cause and timing.

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

The reference of choice for pediatricians, pediatric residents, and medical students, the newly revised and expanded 5th edition provides clear, practice-oriented guidance of the core knowledge in pediatrics. Comprehensive coverage of hundreds of topics ranging from temper tantrums and thumb-sucking to diabetes and kidney disease make this an ideal reference for students, pediatric residents, pediatric nurse practitioners and nurses. More than 140 clinical chapters review pertinent epidemiology and pathophysiology, then gives concise guidelines on what symptoms to look for, what alternative diagnoses to consider, what tests to order, and how to manage your patient. Outcomes-centric focus - chapters open with a case presentation and a list of focal questions, and close with the case resolution. Quick reference organization - Signs and symptoms are grouped by body system for fast look-up; head, neck and respiratory system; cardiovascular system; hematologic, genitourinary, orthopedic, gastrointestinal, neurologic, dermatologic disorders. Consistent solution-oriented format - Steps through clinical presentation; pathophysiology; differential diagnosis; evaluation; lab tests; management; and prognosis. Illuminating visuals - Superb figures illustrate patient presentations and clinical procedures. An ideal reference for pediatricians, family physicians, medical students, residents, residency program directors, physician assistants, pediatric nurse practitioners and nurses.

The latest pediatric clinical practice guidelines and policies. Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines include: Febrile seizures, ADHD, Autism, Bronchiolitis, Cerebral palsy, Dysplasia of the hip, Febrile seizures, Gastroenteritis, Group B streptococcal disease, Head injury, Otitis media, Seizure, Sinusitis, Sleep apnea, Sports medicine, Urinary tract infection And more!