Comprehensive and authoritative, the Pediatric Patient Education Manual includes materials from top health care facilities across the country as well as information from professional literature. An advisory board of experts ensures its breadth and accuracy of coverage. Spanning infancy to adolescence, the manual contains a wide variety of patient education handouts and corresponding information for the practitioner. Latest update includes information on following topics: growth charts, suicide warning signs, top 10 tips for raising a child with arthritis, understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, helping your overweight child, drowning prevention tips for children ages 0-5 years and much more! For Orders and Inquiries, please call: 1-888-427-5800.

Nowhere is patient education more important than in the pediatric setting. Proper education ensures that patients, parents, and caregivers remain active participants in a child's ongoing care. The Pediatric Patient Education Manual provides the pediatric health care professional with patient and practitioner reference materials spanning infancy to adolescence. With the help of an editorial advisory board, materials have been collected from hospitals, individual and group pediatric practices, health departments, home care agencies, and academic settings, as well as extracted from the pediatric literature. The manual contains guidelines, instructions, checklists, and other tools to facilitate pediatric patient education. All chapters are prefaced by a detailed table of contents, separated by tabbed dividers, and comprised of large-print, uncluttered handouts that highlight major concepts and simplify patient teaching.

The Pediatric Nutrition Patient Education Manual is a convenient, comprehensive reference tool essential for educating patients and providing practitioners with the most accurate information on pediatric nutrition. Complete with instructions, guidelines, charts, checklists, sample meal plans, and snack ideas, all ready to photocopy and distribute, this resource provides practical information for the optimal nutrition care of infants and children. Registered dietitians who are members of The American Dietetic Association (ADA) are content experts and reviewers of all information included in this manual. They have expertise in working with infants and children and their caregivers and work closely with all members of the healthcare team in their everyday practice. The Manual creates an instant library of easily understandable handouts in both English and Spanish on topics including: nutrition for stages of growth from infancy to adolescence, specific nutrition information for medical conditions such as cancer, cardiac conditions, diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, HIV/AIDS, and developmental disorders, vegetarianism, and exercise and weight management. The Manual provides quick and easy nutrition information for patients from birth to adolescence in one comprehensive resource. For Orders and Inquiries, please call: 1-888-427-5800.

Covering the specific care needs of children in hospital settings, this edition provides guidance for the caregiver from the initial evaluation through post-release treatment and follow-up. Eighteen new chapters ensure coverage of the most current conditions and concerns.

The Manual of Pediatric Intensive Care distills the salient information required to provide state-of-the-art care for the acutely ill and injured child into a concise, readily useful guide. Providing timely and appropriate care is a daunting challenge for fontline caregivers, early response and transport teams and pediatric and critical care trainees. This manual delivers the basic information and practical advice needed by those who provide urgently needed care to children in a format that occupies the middle ground between the voluminous, highly detailed textbook and the 'to do' lists that provide no physiological background for the approach presented. An introduction for beginners and a valuable aid for those already engaged in the care of acutely ill children, the Manual of Pediatric Intensive Care comprises contributions from specialists from around the world, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists and respiratory therapists.

"The AAP's authoritative guide to the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 childhood conditions." -- Provided by publisher.