Case Studies in Pediatric Infectious Diseases [Paperback]

Features 121 case studies to provide an approach to the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric infectious diseasesThis book features 121 case studies intended to provide an approach to the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric infectious diseases. Each brief case scenario, designed to challenge the reader to work out the answer, is followed by a discussion of the case, supplemented with tables and photographs. Discussions focus on principles of management, as opposed to details, and place emphasis on determining risk factors and on clinical evaluation, not on performing non-discriminating laboratory tests.This book features 121 case studies intended to provide an approach to the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric infectious diseases. Each brief case scenario, designed to challenge the reader to work out the answer, is followed by a discussion of the case, supplemented with tables and photographs. Discussions focus on principles of management, as opposed to details, and place emphasis on determining risk factors and on clinical evaluation, not on performing non-discriminating laboratory tests.This book features 121 case studies intended to provide an approach to the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric infectious diseases. There are three sections: the first discusses the principles of diagnosing infections, using epidemiology, microbiology, and clinical medicine, while also discussing the principles of treatment; the second, constituting the core of the book, consists of case studies. A brief case scenario, designed to challenge the reader to work out the answer, is followed by a discussion of the case. The third section contains tables and lists about infectious agents and their epidemiology.Part I. Introduction; Part II. Case Studies; Part III. Appendix.