50 Studies Every Pediatrician Should Know

by Ashaunta T. Anderson, Nina L. Shapiro, Stephen C. Aronoff, Jeremiah Davis, Michael Levy

Overview

50 Studies Every Pediatrician Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the current clinical practice of pediatrics. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics including: allergy immunology, behavioral, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, ENT, general pediatrics, hematology, infectious disease, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and pulmonary. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of the study, and its implications for practice. An illustrative clinical case concludes each review, followed by brief information on other relevant studies. This is one of the only books of its kind to present a collection of the most influential clinical trials in pediatrics that are detailed enough to be used on rounds, but still easily digestible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190601584
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/03/2016
Series:	Fifty Studies Every Doctor Should Know
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Ashaunta T. Anderson is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of California in Los Angeles, California. Nina L. Shapiro is the Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology and a Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. Stephen C. Aronoff is the Waldo E. Nelson Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jeremiah Davis is a Community Pediatrician at Mosaic Medical in Bend, Oregon. Michael Levy is a Pediatric Clinical Lecturer at the University of Michigan and C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Table of Contents

Section I: Allergy Immunology 1. Efficacy of Immunoglobulin Plus Prednisolone in Prevention of Coronary Artery Abnormalities in Kawasaki Disease Section II: Behavioral 2. Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism 3. Treatment for adolescents with depression study (TADS) 4. The Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA) Section III: Cardiology 5. Pharmacologic Closure of a Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Premature Infants 6. The relation of overweight to cardiovascular risk factors among children and adolescents: the Bogalusa heart study Section IV: Dermatology 7. Propranolol vs. Prednisolone for Symptomatic Proliferating Infantile Hemangiomas: A Randomized Clinical Trial Section V: Endocrinology 8. Risk Factors for Cerebral Edema in Children with Diabetic Ketoacidosis Section VI: ENT 9. A Trial of Early Ear Tube Placement in Children with Persistent Otitis Media Section VII: General Pediatrics 10. Maintenance IV Fluid Requirements 11. Predischarge Serum Bilirubin to Predict Significant Hyperbilirubinemia in Newborns 12. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Risk Factors: The Chicago Infant Mortality Study 13. Treatment of Acute Otitis Media in Children 14. The Human Papillomavirus Vaccine 15. Evidence of Decrease in Vaccine-Type Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Herd Protection in Adolescents and Young Women 16. Effects of Lead Exposure in Childhood Section VIII: Hematology 17. Iron Supplementation for Breastfed Infants 18. Transfusion Strategies for Patients in Pediatric Intensive Care Units 19. Prophylactic Penicillin in Sickle Cell Anemia Section IX: Infectious Disease 20. Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy for Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections 21. Infants at Low Risk for Serious Bacterial Infection 22. Outpatient Treatment of Febrile Infants at Low Risk for Serious Bacterial Infection 23. Outpatient Treatment of Selected Febrile Infants Without Antibiotics 24. Neonatal Fever Without a Source 25. Serious Bacterial Infections and Viral Infections in Febrile Infants 26. Chest Radiograph and Lower Respiratory Tract Infection 27. Vidarabine Therapy of Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection 28. Early Reversal of Pediatric and Neonatal Septic Shock 29. Reduction of vertical transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 30. Palivizumab prophylaxis against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in high risk infants 31. The Spectrum of Bronchiolitis 32. Preventing Early-Onset Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease Section X: Neonatology 33. Apgar Scoring of Infants at Delivery 34. Prophylactic Treatment with Human Surfactant in Extremely Preterm Infants Section XI: Nephrology 35. Oral versus Initial Intravenous Antibiotics for Urinary Tract Infection in Young Febrile Children 36. Identifying children with minimal change disease (MCD) 37. Chronic renal disease following poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis Section XII: Neurology 38. Antipyretic Agents for Preventing Febrile Seizure Recurrence 39. Febrile Seizures and Risk for Epilepsy 40. Seizure Recurrence After First Unprovoked Afebrile Seizure 41. Mortality and Childhood-Onset Epilepsy 42. Identifying Children with Low-Risk Head Injuries Who Do Not Require Computed Tomography Section XIII: Oncology 43. Health-Related Quality of Life Among Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Section XIV: Ophthalmology 44. Treatment of Acute Conjunctivitis in Children 45. Screening for Amblyopia Section XV: Orthopedics 46. Differentiation Between Septic Arthritis and Transient Synovitis of the Hip in Children Section XVI: Pulmonary 47. Steroids for the Treatment of Croup 48. Inhaled Corticosteroids for Mild Persistent Asthma 49. Inhaled Salbutamol (Albuterol) vs. Injected Epinephrine in Acute Asthma 50. Long-term Inhaled Hypertonic Saline for Cystic Fibrosis

Editorial Reviews

"The book is an impressive testament to the thousands of patients, hundreds of researchers, and multiple funding sources that together have helped provide the empirical foundation for our current approaches to the treatment of psychiatric disorders." — Altagracia Gomez-Aracena and A. Reese Abright, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Joseph Russell Hageman, MD (Comer Children's Hospital)
Description: Part of the 50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know series that highlights important, clinically relevant studies that practitioners should understand as we attempt to practice evidence-based medicine, this book focuses on clinical studies relevant for pediatricians.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide an evidence base for a number of the clinical practices of pediatricians. The preface provides a historical perspective of how clinicians have basically learned medicine from senior practitioners based primarily on their anecdotal clinical experiences. Since I started my residency 40 years ago, medical school faculty have been working hard to do more randomized, controlled trials in collaboration to provide a more scientific basis for how we practice medicine. This book includes a variety of important studies which provide evidence for the clinical decisions we make. The editors and authors do an excellent job of meeting the outlined objectives.
Audience: Although written for practitioners, the book is also a valuable resource for medical students, residents, fellows, and attending physicians, as well as for nursing students, nurses, and nurse practitioners. These papers are also helpful for physician assistants who are learning clinical medicine. What is unique about this book is that the editors and author team attempted to contact the original authors to have them review the summaries and provide their feedback.
Features: The articles are organized by clinical discipline within pediatrics including general pediatrics and subspecialties that are particularly relevant to pediatricians in practice. The articles cover clinical topics that a general pediatrician or pediatric hospitalist encounter on a regular basis. What I appreciate is the way each article is presented, with the most important points summarized. Further references are also provided. I can see that this would be a good resource for everything from teaching students to talking with patients and their families.
Assessment: This is an excellent resource for explaining the reasons for our management decisions for many of the more common clinical diseases and conditions as well as therapeutic interventions in a general pediatric or pediatric hospitalist practice. The approach is straightforward, which is useful for teaching students and trainees as well as talking with families. The fact that the editors and authors worked to contact the original authors for feedback is especially noteworthy.

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