Book
Summary: This book covers essential information necessary in diagnosing and treating pediatric patients in the emergency room. Emergencies require quick and precise decision making that does not allow for extended reading or fact-checking to ensure all factors are considered. This pocket guide addresses that need by placing vital clinical management and algorithms into a quick and simple guidebook that can be accessed within moments from a scrub pocket or white coat. It is an easy, quick access reference that can be used for those facts that are absolutely essential, but are often difficult to remember. Color images and flow charts allow doctors to grasp the essentials quickly, while more detailed explanations are included alongside for trainees. Quick Hits for Pediatric Emergency Medicine uses tips, caveats, drug dosing, and pearls to assist the provider who may not be familiar with all of the unique nuances of the pediatric population. This is ideal for emergency department physicians, nurses, and trainees including students, residents, and fellows.
Contents:
Intro; Foreword; Contents; Contributors;
Chapter 1: Airway: Pediatric Anatomy, Infants and Children; Before You Intubate: What You Need to Know; Lung Physiology; Lung Mechanics; Tips for Intubation; Ventilation Equipment;
Chapter 2: Respiratory Review: A, B, C, and P of Kids (Asthma, Bronchiolitis, Croup, and Pneumonia); Respiratory Overview; Asthma; Clinical Presentation; Treatment; Considerations for Severe Asthma; Asthma Pearls; Pediatric Asthma Score; Bronchiolitis; Clinical Presentation; Treatment; Supportive; Bronchiolitis Score; Croup (Laryngotracheobronchitis); Clinical Presentation Clinical Presentation with the FollowingTreatment; Westley Score; Pneumonia; Clinical Presentation; Treatment; Pediatric Pneumonia;
Chapter 3: Resuscitation: Pediatric Algorithms; Resuscitation: Pediatric Algorithms (Figs. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4);
Chapter 4: Pediatric Pearls: Management of Shock in Children; Shock; Cardiac Output (CO) = Heart Rate (HR) × Stoke Volume (SV); Quick Hit Cardiac Pearls; Definition of Hypotension by Systolic Blood Pressure and Age; Heart Rate and Perfusion Pressure for Age; Pediatric CPR; Pediatric Pearls; SIRS Criteria Common Pediatric Medications for Resuscitation and Cardiac Arrest
Chapter 5: Pediatric Ventilator Management; Noninvasive Modes of Ventilation; Invasive Ventilation; Types of Ventilator Support; Modes of Ventilation; Initial Ventilator Settings; DOPES;
Chapter 6: Neonatal Delivery and the Acutely Ill Neonate; Neonates (Age ≤ 28 Days); Causes of Severe Illness in Neonates: THE MISFITS; Newborn Delivery and Resuscitation (Fig. 6.1); MR SOPA Ventilation Correction Steps; Newborn Resuscitation Medications; Endotracheal Intubation Guide; UVC Placement; Supplies Needed; Procedure (Figs. 6.2 and 6.3) APGAR Score
Chapter 7: Pediatric Abdominal Pain; Common Diagnoses with Work-Up and Management; Differential Diagnosis for Abdominal Pain Stratified by Age; Quick Hits Abdominal Pain Pearls;
Chapter 8: Trauma Tidbits; Glasgow Coma Scale; Fluid Resuscitation Guidelines; Fluid Maintenance Requirements; Fluid Replacement for Burns; Adequate Urine Output; Blood Replacement Guidelines; Tube Sizes (French); General Considerations for Pediatric Trauma Patients; Size and Shape; Skeleton; Surface Area; ABCDE of Pediatric Trauma Management; Airway and Cervical Spine Stabilization Breathing and VentilationCirculation and Hemorrhage Control; Disability; Exposure; Quick Hits Pediatric Trauma Pearls;
Chapter 9: Pediatric Head Injury Guidelines; Pediatric Head Injury Guidelines; Pediatric Blunt Head Injury, Less Than 2 Years Old (Fig. 9.1); Pediatric Blunt Head Injury, 2 Years Old and Older (Fig. 9.2);
Chapter 10: Pediatric Burns; Etiology; Work-Up; Classification of Burns; Management; Disposition; Estimating Body Surface Area for Burns (Fig. 10.1); Quick Hits: Pediatric Burn Pearls;
Chapter 11: Procedure Pearls; Airway Adjuncts