• Comes with bonus handheld software.
• Organizes a wealth of information into a convenient, pocket-sized format.
• Focuses on the safety and efficacy of drugs in children.
• Covers FDA Pregnancy Category notations and information on the effects of drugs in breast milk.
• Includes step-by-step emergency management protocols, growth charts, and more.
• Uses an outline format for each disease chapter with algorithms, charts, tables, and drawings that highlight critical information.

• Offers a new section on pediatric allergy covering food allergy · RAS testing vs. skin testing · and more.
• Features a new chapter on rhuematologic disorders of children, including SLE, rheumatic fever, and JRA.
• Integrates key surgical topics, such as neonatal surgical issues encountered in the NICU and the acute abdomen in the ER, into existing chapters.
• Provides updates to the trusted trademark formulary, including indications for use in lactating women, side effects, drug interactions, and precautions, plus the latest drugs and dosages approved for pediatric patients.
• Presents a new streamlined organization with redundancies removed and more visual elements added.
• Uses all redrawn line drawings to incorporate a 2nd color, making reference easier than ever.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

For more than 50 years, The Harriet Lane Handbook has been the pediatrician's reference of choice and for good reason. Its unsurpassed diagnostic and management guidance, recommended tests, complete therapeutic information, and comprehensive drug formulary make it essential for anyone who treats children. Now, the 17th Edition is completely revised and updated to provide readers with the latest treatments, guidelines, procedures, and management recommendations all in the easy-to-use, quick-access format that's made it a bestseller. BONUS handheld software lets you download and synchronize diagnostic and management guidelines, recommended tests, complete therapeutic information, a comprehensive drug formulary with FDA pregnancy notations and trade/generic name drug index, and more than 15 medical calculators.

Comes with bonus handheld software. Organizes a wealth of information into a convenient, pocket-sized format. Focuses on the safety and efficacy of drugs in children.Covers FDA Pregnancy Category notations and information on the effects of drugs in breast milk.Includes step-by-step emergency management protocols, growth charts, and more.Uses an outline format for each disease chapter with algorithms, charts, tables, and drawings that highlight critical information.

Offers a new section on pediatric allergy covering food allergy RAS testing vs. skin testing Features a new chapter on rhuematologic disorders of children, including SLE, rheumatic fever, and JRA.Integrates key surgical topics, such as neonatal surgical issues encountered in the NICU and the acute abdomen in the ER, into existingchapters.Provides updates to the trusted trademark formulary, including indications for use in lactating women, side effects, drug interactions, and precautions, plus the latest drugs and dosages approved for pediatric patients.Presents a new streamlined organization with redundancies removed and more visual elements added.Uses all redrawn line drawings to incorporate a 2nd color, making reference easier than ever.

SYNOPSIS

Software for handheld computing devices has been added to this edition of the classic of over 50 years standing, along with updates on treatments, guidelines, procedures and management recommendations, along with new chapters on food allergies, rheumatology, surgeries and a significant update to the trademark formulary. Topics include acute care, diagnostic and therapeutic information on subjects ranging from adolescent care to behavior and development, cardiology, genetics, infectious diseases, neurology and oncology, and reference such as blood chemistry and biostatistics and include illustrations and clinical photographs. The authors provide a thorough index and edge-coding on the pages for fast reference. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

FROM THE CRITICS

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Charles M. Kantrow, BS, MD (Ochsner Clinic Foundation)Description: The ultimate handbook for pediatricians, house officers, and staff just got better. This book is a complete compendium of what any pediatric house officer would need to know to provide day-to-day care for children. The last edition was published in 2002. Purpose: The purpose is to provide an ever-improving source of "convenient, readily accessible synthesis of information useful to the pediatric house officer and pediatric practitioner." This has become, through the years, an indispensable source for that information. This book meets and surpasses its objective. Audience: It is written for house officers in pediatrics, as well as all practitioners of pediatrics in need of a resource. Each chapter is written by a different resident with a faculty supervisor's help to ensure adequate information is presented in a useful format for the intended audience. Features: The book covers most everything needed to provide care to pediatric patients by house officers. The information is divided by subspecialty and has useful topic headings to allow one to answer most questions regarding basic care of a child. The drug dosing information is updated and particularly helpful as in the neonatal critical care and emergency management topics. Most all topics seem well done and thorough. Assessment: This is an outstanding book which seems to be getting better and more accessible with each edition. No pediatric house officer or practitioner should be without a copy. It is the standard in the pediatric community against which other quick references are judged.

RATING

3 Stars from Doody