cover image - Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 2-Volume Set, 22nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323883054
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 04-25-2024
Page Count: 4896
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $178.99

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 2-Volume Set, 22nd Edition

by Robert Kliegman, MD and Joseph W. St. Geme III, MD

Hardcover

cover image - Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 2-Volume Set, 22nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323883054
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 04-25-2024
Page Count: 4896
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $178.99
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    • Features a user-friendly format with short chapters and subchapters that allow you to quickly find the information you need.
    • Includes more than 60 new chapters on topics covering the impact of social factors on children’s health, the impact of genetic discoveries on understanding diagnosing and treating childhood diseases, updating of current evidenced based diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to childhood diseases, and more.
    • Offers new and expanded information on gene therapy; interferonopathies; reactive infectious mucocutaneous eruption (RIME); e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury (EVALI); monkeypox; food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES); signaling pathway disorders; ciliopathies; very early onset inflammatory bowel disease; Epstein-Barr virus susceptibility disorders; marijuana smoke exposure; and much more.
    • Features hundreds of new figures and tables throughout for visual clarity and quick reference, real-time videos, and regular updates online, written exclusively for Nelson.
    • Provides fresh perspectives from two new associate editors: Abigail M. Schuh and Cara L. Mack, both of Medical College of Wisconsin.
    • Remains your indispensable source for definitive, evidence-based answers on every aspect of pediatric care.

    • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
  • Volume 1

    Part I the Field of Pediatrics
    1 Overview of Pediatrics
    2 Child Health Disparities
    3 Global Child Health
    4 Quality and Value in Healthcare for Children
    5 Safety in Healthcare for Children
    6 Ethics in Pediatric Care
    7 Complementary Therapies and Integrative Medicine
    8 Pediatric Palliative Care
    9 Domestic and International Adoption
    10 Foster and Kinship Care
    11 Medical Evaluation of the Foreign-born Child
    12 Cultural Issues in Pediatric Care
    13 Maximizing Children’s Health: Screening, Anticipatory Guidance, and Counseling
    14 Injury Control
    15 Impact of Violence Exposure on Children
    16 Child Trafficking for Sex and Labor
    17 Abused and Neglected Children
    18 Strategies for Health Behavior Change
    Part II Growth, Development, and Behavior
    19 Developmental and Behavioral Theories
    20 Positive Parenting and Support
    21 Assessment of Fetal Growth and Development
    22 the Newborn
    23 the First Year
    24 the Second Year
    25 the Preschool Years
    26 Middle Childhood
    27 Assessment of Growth
    28 Developmental and Behavioral Surveillance and Screening
    29 Child Care
    30 Loss, Separation, and Bereavement
    31 Sleep Medicine
    Part III Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders
    32 Psychosocial Assessment and Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation
    33 Psychopharmacology
    34 Psychotherapy
    35 Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
    36 Rumination and Pica
    37 Motor Disorders and Habits
    38 Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    39 Mood Disorders
    40 Suicide and Attempted Suicide
    41 Eating Disorders
    42 Disruptive, Impulse-control, and Conduct Disorders
    43 Tantrums and Breath-holding Spells
    44 Lying, Stealing, and Truancy
    45 Aggression
    46 Self-injurious Behavior
    47 Childhood Psychoses
    48 Delirium
    Part IV Learning and Developmental Disorders
    49 Neurodevelopmental and Executive Function and Dysfunction
    50 Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder
    51 Dyslexia
    52 Math and Writing Disabilities
    53 Language Development and Communication Disorders
    54 Augmentative and Alternative Communication
    55 Outcomes Among Infants and Children Who Are Deaf/hard of Hearing
    56 Developmental Delay and Intellectual Disability
    57 Down Syndrome and Other Abnormalities of Chromosome Number
    58 Autism Spectrum Disorder
    59 Fragile X Syndromes
    Part V Nutrition
    60 Nutritional Requirements
    61 Feeding Healthy Infants, Children, and Adolescents
    62 Nutrition, Food Security, and Health
    63 Refeeding Syndrome
    64 Malnutrition in High-resource Settings
    65 Overweight and Obesity
    66 Vitamin a Deficiencies and Excess
    67 Vitamin B Complex Deficiencies and Excess
    68 Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) Deficiency and Excess
    69 Vitamin D Deficiency (Rickets) and Excess
    70 Vitamin E Deficiency
    71 Vitamin K Deficiency
    72 Micronutrient Mineral Deficiencies
    Part VI Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders
    73 Electrolyte and Acid-base Disorders
    74 Maintenance and Replacement Therapy
    75 Deficit Therapy
    76 Fluid and Electrolyte Treatment of Specific Disorders
    Part VII Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, and Anesthesia
    77 Emergency Medical Services for Children
    78 Triage of the Acutely Ill Child
    79 Pediatric Cardiorespiratory Emergencies and Resuscitation
    80 Acute Care of Multiple Trauma
    81 Spinal Cord Injuries in Children
    82 Neurologic Emergencies and Stabilization
    83 Brain Death: Death by Neurologic Criteria
    84 Syncope
    85 Shock
    86 Acute Care of Respiratory Distress and Failure
    87 Altitude-associated Illness in Children
    88 Drowning and Submersion Injury
    89 Burn Injuries
    90 Cold Injuries
    91 Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
    92 Procedural Sedation
    93 Pediatric Pain Management
    94 Poisoning
    Part VIII Human Genetics
    95 Genetics in Pediatric Medicine
    96 Principles of Human Genetics
    97 Patterns of Genetic Transmission
    98 Integration of Genetics Into Pediatric Practice
    99 Chromosome Disorders
    100 Dysmorphology, Phenotyping, and Sequences
    101 Signaling Pathway Disorders
    102 Chromatin Regulatory Disorders
    103 Genetics of Common Disorders
    Part IX Metabolic Disorders
    104 an Approach to Inborn Errors of Metabolism
    105 Defects in Metabolism of Amino Acids
    106 Defects in Metabolism of Lipids
    107 Defects in Metabolism of Carbohydrates
    108 Mitochondrial Disease Diagnosis
    109 Mucopolysaccharidoses
    110 Disorders of Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism
    111 Hutchinson-gilford Progeria Syndrome (Progeria)
    112 the Porphyrias
    113 Hypoglycemia
    Part X the Fetus and the Neonatal Infant
    114 Overview of Morbidity and Mortality
    115 the Newborn Infant
    116 High-risk Pregnancies
    117 the Fetus
    118 Fetal Intervention and Surgery
    119 the High-risk Infant
    120 Transport of the Critically Ill Newborn
    121 Clinical Manifestations of Diseases in the Newborn Period
    122 Nervous System Disorders
    123 Neonatal Resuscitation and Delivery Room Emergencies
    124 Transition to Newborn Pulmonary Respiration
    125 Apnea
    126 Respiratory Distress Syndrome (Hyaline Membrane Disease)
    127 Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
    128 Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn
    129 Aspiration of Foreign Material (Meconium Aspiration Syndrome, Aspiration Pneumonia)
    130 Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (Persistent Fetal Circulation)
    131 Diaphragmatic Hernia
    132 Pulmonary Air Leaks: Pneumothorax, Pneumomediastinum, Pulmonary Interstitial Emphysema, Pneumopericardium
    133 Pulmonary Hemorrhage
    134 Digestive System Disorders
    135 Meconium Ileus, Peritonitis, Intestinal Obstruction, and Gastroschisis
    136 Necrotizing Enterocolitis
    137 Jaundice and Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn
    138 Blood Disorders
    139 Anemia in the Newborn Infant
    140 Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn
    141 Neonatal Polycythemia
    142 Hemorrhage in the Newborn Infant
    143 Nonimmune Hydrops
    144 the Umbilicus
    145 Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
    146 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
    147 Infants of Diabetic Mothers
    148 Epidemiology of Infections
    149 Congenital and Perinatal Infections
    Part XI Adolescent Medicine
    150 Adolescent Physical and Social Development
    151 Delivery of Healthcare to Adolescents

  • Robert Kliegman, MD, Professor & Chair Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics - Medical College of Wisconsin Nelson Undiagnosed & Rare Disease Program and Joseph W. St. Geme III, MD, Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; Physician-in-Chief, Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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