5 Minute Pediatric Consult with Auto-Updates for Palm OS

About 5 Minute Pediatric Consult with Auto-Updates

The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult
With Auto-updates Editors: M. W Schwartz MD; Louis M Bell Jr., MD; Peter M Bingham MD; Esther K Chung MD, MPH; David F Friedman MD; Andrew E Mulberg MD; Ronn E Tanel MD Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Description The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult is the newly-revised, best-selling reference providing immediate, practical advice on problems seen in infants, children, and adolescents. More than 450 diseases are covered in the fast-access format that makes The 5-Minute Consult Series so popular among busy clinicians.

With Unbound Medicine's award-winning design, you can choose from multiple indexes to instantly navigate to the information that best answers your clinical questions. Start with the basics by choosing a symptom, then move on to review differential diagnosis, treatment options, follow-up care and more.

Want to take a different approach? Search the medication index by specific drug names, use the surgical glossary to review procedures, or find diagnostic tests for children with heart conditions in the cardiology laboratory. Other features include a Chief Complaints section addressing the workup and treatment of 50 signs and symptoms, plus an ICD-9 code index and more than 100 tables!

With Unbound Medicine's unique mobile platform you can quickly review information and bookmark important material for instant retrieval. Regular updates are delivered automatically when you synchronize your PDA.

New to This Edition

• New material throughout including Acetaminophen Poisoning, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Cyclospora Diarrhea, Functional Diarrhea, Methemoglobinemia, Rotavirus, Salicylate Poisoning (Aspirin)
• New information on SARS and other emerging infections, including the latest treatment recommendations
• Revised content delivers current diagnostic and treatment guidelines for fever and petechiae, STD evaluation, knee pain, ankle sprain, and urethritis

  Features

• Over 450 pediatric medical problems--the conditions that are most frequently seen
• Chief Complaints section with work-up and treatment of 50 commonly encountered signs and symptoms
• Logical organization designed for rapid answers to clinical questions
• Medication index, syndromes glossary, surgical glossary, ICD 9 codes, and SNOMED codes
• Custom table and figure viewers for both Palm and Pocket PC operating systems
• Bookmark tool for handy reference

Advanced PDA features

• Regular updates for 12 months when you sync your device
• Wireless synchronization support
• Landscape mode, color and high resolution support
• Secure digital (SD) card and memory stick support
• Data compression to save space on your device