Following the "Current" outline format to make it super easy for you to find the answers you need, this comprehensive, clinically focused guide delivers evidence-based information on the pediatric medical conditions most often encountered in daily clinical practice.

Complete with an invaluable guide to normal laboratory values and 600 photos and illustrations, CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics offers succinct, authoritative overviews of important pediatric health concerns, such as childhood nutrition and eating disorders; substance abuse; psychiatric disorders; child abuse; oral medicine and dentistry; immunization; and emergencies and injuries. The authors provide detailed descriptions of diseases as well as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and everything is presented in the time-saving LANGE CURRENT style: Problem, Essentials of Diagnosis, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis.

Expert coverage of the council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) curriculum used in pediatric clerkship.

46 chapters cover neonatal medicine, child development and behavior, emergency and critical care medicine, diagnosis and treatment of specific disorders according to major problems, etiologies, and organ systems.

Complete with an invaluable guide to normal laboratory values.

New section on infections due to Human Coronaviruses, including COVID-19

Important updates to chapters on immunizations, endocrinology, neurologic and muscular disorders, and adolescent substance abuse

Chapter on HIV includes current guidelines for prevention and treatment of HIV, and updated information on the new antiretroviral therapies.

Chapter on immunizations contains the most recently published recommendations, discusses contraindications and precautions relevant to special populations, and included new vaccines licensed since the last edition.