The Harriet Lane Handbook - A Manual for Pediatric House Officers
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Author(s): The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Jason W. Custer, MD and Rachel E. Rau, MD Publisher: Mosby - An imprint of Elsevier, Inc Edition: Based on the 18th edition
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Unsurpassed diagnostic and management guidance, recommended tests, complete therapeutic information, and comprehensive drug formulary make it essential for anyone who treats children.
For more than 50 years, The Harriet Lane Handbook has been the pediatrician's reference of choice and for good reason. Its unsurpassed diagnostic and management guidance, recommended tests, complete therapeutic information, and comprehensive drug formulary make it essential for anyone who treats children. This latest update is based on the 18th edition and it includes additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates! Completely revised and updated with new scoring tools, interactive flowcharts and nearly 600 integrated weight-based dosing calculators, Skyscape's Harriet Lane Handbook sets a new standard as the essential decision support tool for anyone who treats children.Key Features- Focuses on the safety and efficacy of drugs in children.
- Newly added palliative care section for more well-rounded guidance.
- Covers FDA Pregnancy Category notations and information on the effects of drugs in breast milk.
- Includes step-by-step emergency management protocols, growth charts, and more.
- Revised sections on toxicology, dermatology, and growth and nutrition help you streamline diagnosis and treatment.
- Incorporates the latest treatment and management recommendations, immunization guidelines, procedures, and therapeutic guidelines so you can stay completely up to date.
- Features sections on pediatric allergies covering food allergy, RAS testing vs. skin testing, etc. and rheumatologic disorders of children, including SLE, rheumatic fever, and JRA.
- Integrates key surgical topics, such as neonatal surgical issues encountered in the NICU and the acute abdomen in the ER, into existing topics.
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You can cross-index The Harriet Lane Handbook with all of Skyscape's 600+ clinical, drug & diagnostic references.
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- Body Surface Area: Pediatric
- Creatinine Clearance – Measured
- Fick - Cardiac Output
- Glasgow Coma Scale
- Growth Chart
- Ideal Body Weight (IBW)
- Sodium Deficit
- Water Deficit
- And many more!
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Flowcharts: Complex algorithms and protocols are transformed from static images into dynamic step-by-step decision support tools. This innovative feature helps you walk through even the most intricate decision models, quickly and easily. View flowchart demo> Note: this feature is not available on all platforms.
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Full color images: This product includes images that help bring the content to life.
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SmartLink: Skyscape's patented SmartLink™ technology is a powerful tool that enables you to cross-reference all of your Skyscape resources, quickly and easily. Following logical thought patterns, SmartLink allows you to connect relevant information across multiple sources of information simultaneously.
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Table Viewer: Available on the Palm, this feature allows you to make full use of rich tables, right on the compact screen of your mobile device. View Table Viewer demo>
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Update Policy: Edition-based. New editions are released when the content changes significantly; there is no standard schedule for new editions.
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| Lists available platforms, memory requirements. |
|  | Android: requires 11.34 MB of memory | | |  | BlackBerry®: requires 10 MB of memory | | |  | iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad: requires 9.62 MB of memory | | |  | Palm OS® 3.5 or higher: requires 12 MB of memory | | |  | Palm Pre Classic: requires 12 MB of memory Classic application by MotionApps required | | |  | Symbian S60, 3rd edition (Nokia): requires 10 MB of memory | | | ![Windows Mobile™ Pocket PC [all versions]](/images/wm5logo.gif) | Windows Mobile™ Pocket PC [all versions]: requires 13.6 MB of memory | | |  | Windows Mobile Smartphone: requires 13.6 MB of memory | | |
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David C. Stockwell, MD (Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC)
As usual the handheld version mimics the paperback very well and with each release of the Harriet Lane Handbook (HLH) on handheld from Skyscape it gets better and better.
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