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® FIRST AID FOR THE Pediatrics Clerkship Third Edition Latha G. Stead, MD, MS, FACEP Chief, Division of Clinical Research Professor of Emergency Medicine University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville, Florida Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine Rochester, Minnesota Matthew S. Kaufman, MD Assistant Professor Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Hematology North Shore–Long Island Jewish Medical Center New Hyde Park, New York Muhammad Waseem, MD Associate Professor Emergency Medicine (Clinical Pediatrics) Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, New York Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 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CONTENTS Contributors Student Reviewers SECTION I 1 How to Succeed in the Pediatrics Clerkship SECTION II 2 Gestation & Birth 3 Prematurity 4 Growth & Development 5 Nutrition 6 Health Supervision and Prevention of Illness and Injury in Children and Adolescents 7 Congenital Malformations and Chromosomal Abnormalities 8 Metabolic Disease 9 Immunologic Disease 10 Infectious Disease 11 Gastrointestinal Disease 12 Respiratory Disease 13 Cardiovascular Disease 14 Renal, Gynecologic, and Urinary Disease 15 Hematologic Disease 16 Endocrine Disease 17 Neurologic Disease 18 Special Organs—Eye, Ear, Nose 19 Musculoskeletal Disease 20 Dermatologic Disease 21 Psychiatric Disease 22 Pediatric Life Support Index CONTRIBUTORS IRFAN ALI, MD Fellow, Child Neurology Department of Child Neurology Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, Ohio Neurologic Disease MUHAMMAD ASLAM, MD Instructor, Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Neonatologist, Children’s Hospital Boston Boston, Massachusetts Gestation and Birth Prematurity FARHEEN BAWAHAB, MD Research Assistant National Children’s Study Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York Gastrointestinal Disease NICHOLAS D. CAPUTO, MD, MSc Resident, Emergency Medicine Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Pediatric Life Support ALI FARZAD Medical Student Class of 2010 St. George’s University School of Medicine Granada, West Indies Renal, Gynecologic, and Urinary Disease FARHAT GHAZNAWI Medical Student Class of 2010 St. George’s University School of Medicine Granada, West Indies Renal, Gynecologic, and Urinary Disease MUSHTAQ A. GODIL, MD Associate, Pediatric Endocrinology Department of Pediatrics Geisinger Medical Center Danville, Pennsylvania Endocrine Diseases IRENE GRINBERG, MD Resident, Emergency Medicine Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Hematologic Disease MARC P. KANTER, MD Chief Resident, Emergency Medicine Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Musculoskeletal Disease SAQIBA KHAN, MD Attending Physician, Pediatric Emergency Department Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Special Organs—Eye, Ear, and Nose VIRAJ S. LAKDAWALA, MD Chief Resident Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Congenital Malformations and Chromosomal Abnormalities MAGDA D. MENDEZ, MD Pediatric Residency Program Director Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Assistant Professor, Clinical Pediatrics Site Director Pediatric Clerkship Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, New York Growth & Development Health Supervision and Prevention of Illness and Injury in Children and Adolescents UMARFAROOK J. MIRZA, DO Resident Department of Emergency Medicine Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, New York Cardiovascular Disease TAZUDDIN AZMI MOHAMMED, MD Resident Department of Pediatrics Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Respiratory Disease ANDREW J.M. PALIGA, MD, MSc, MHM Resident Department of Emergency Medicine Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, New York Nutrition HEIDI M. PINKERT, MD Attending Physician Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine (Clinical Pediatrics) Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, New York Dermatologic Disease ANDALEEB RAJA, MD Resident, Emergency Medicine Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Psychiatric Disease SYED K. SHAH, MD Resident Department of Pediatrics Bronx Lebanon Hospital Bronx, New York Metabolic Disease YEKATERINA SITNITSKAYA, MD Department of Pediatrics Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Assistant Professor Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, New York Immunologic Disease Infectious Disease MUHAMMAD ALI SYED, MD Resident Department of Pediatrics Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Bronx, New York Respiratory Disease

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