Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Pediatric patients are a unique subset of emergency patients, making up about one-quarter of all emergency department visits. Textbooks regarding the care of pediatric patients are almost universally organized by organ system, which does not facilitate an efficient diagnosis. Taking a case-based approach, Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Chief Complaints and Differential Diagnosis is arranged by chief complaint, using real patient scenarios to help the reader work through the inductive and deductive reasoning needed to assess, evaluate, treat, and disposition pediatric patients with urgent complaints. Cases are structured in the way in which they are presented during medical care, allowing practitioners to become comfortable with the general structure of case presentations: chief complaint, HPI, PMH, ROS, exam, and ancillary studies. This volume also discusses disease processes and their differentiations, providing in-depth knowledge regarding current standards of diagnosis and care.

    Chapter organization allows the reader to think of patients in terms of how they actually present, rather than by organ system
    Presents each case as an unknown, allowing the reader to engage in the process of critically appraising a case
    Questions for thought are given, stimulating critical thinking and deductive reasoning for diagnosis

Table of Contents

1. A statement Denis R. Pauze
2. Resuscitation
Case 1 Erica Escarcega
Case 2 Michael Leonard
Case 3 Donald Jeanmonod
Case 4 Denis R. Pauze and William H. Hauda
Case 5 John Tran and Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 6 Ryan Fulton and Melanie K. Prusakowski
Case 7 Edwin Layng
Case 8 Erica Escarcega
Case 9 Sean Zwiebel
Case 10 Sean Zwiebel
Case 11 Ben Church
3. Breathing complaints
Case 1 Lauren Snyder
Case 2 Natalie Moore
Case 3 Dorka M. Jimenez Almonte
Case 4 Amanda Shorette
Case 5 M. Bryan Dalla Betta
Case 6 Daniel K. Pauze and Denis R. Pauze
Case 7 Ben Church and Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 8 Natalie Moore and Rebecca Jeanmonod
4. Fever
Case 1 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 2 Shellie Asher
Case 3 David H. Long and Janet Young
Case 4 Shellie Asher
Case 5 Kristine Marie J. Casal and Melanie K. Prusakowski
Case 6 Taylor R. Spencer
Case 7 Sarah Hudgins
Case 8 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 9 Keel Coleman and Khalief Hamden
5. Eye, ears, nose, and throat complaints
Case 1 Jason Schwaber
Case 2 Edwin Layng
Case 3 Shellie Asher
Case 4 Tom Dittrich
Case 5 Jonathan R. Morgan and Melanie K. Prusakowski
Case 6 Denis R. Pauze and Daniel K. Pauze
Case 7 Dorota Pazdrowska and Melanie K. Prusakowski
Case 8 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 9 Khalief Hamden
6. Limb complaints
Case 1 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 2 Lauren Snyder
Case 3 Melanie K. Prusakowski
Case 4 Dorka M. Jimenez Almonte
Case 5 Rachel A. Patterson
Case 6 Benjamin Kitt
Case 7 M. Bryan Dalla Betta
Case 8 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 9 Rebecca Jeanmonod
7. Vomiting
Case 1 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 2 Erica Escarcega
Case 3 Kinsey Leonard
Case 4 Angela Mastantuono and Melanie K. Prusakowski
Case 5 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 6 Jason Black
Case 7 Kinsey Leonard
Case 8 Sarah Hudgins
Case 9 Erica Escarcega
Case 10 Kinsey Leonard
8. Abdominal and chest pain
Case 1 Joanthan Nogueira and Janet Young
Case 2 Michelle Clinton
Case 3 Alyssa Milano and Sade McKenzie
Case 4 Holly Stankewicz and Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 5 Sade McKenzie
Case 6 Brian Kelly
Case 7 Cara V. Tillotson, Melanie K. Prusakowski and Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 8 Donald Jeanmonod
9. Altered mental status
Case 1 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 2 Abhishek Chaturvedi
Case 3 Denis R. Pauze
Case 4 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 5 Tom Williams, Emily Miller and Denis R. Pauze
Case 6 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 7 Kinsey Leonard
Case 8 Kinsey Leonard
10. Head and neck pain
Case 1 Sonika Raj
Case 2 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 3 Tom Dittrich, Denis R. Pauze and Matthew Adamo
Case 4 Anst Gelin and Janet Young
Case 5 Christine M. George and Melanie K. Prusakowski
Case 6 Carl Daniel
Case 7 Michael Leonard and Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 8 Jason Schwaber
Case 9 Jamaine Ortis Jr, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Carl Daniel, Denis R. Pauze and Matthew Adamo
11. Genitourinary complaints
Case 1 Shellie Asher
Case 2 Shellie Asher
Case 3 Abhishek Chaturvedi
Case 4 Jennifer Pelesz
Case 5 Pamela Young
Case 6 Leah A. Perez
Case 7 Shellie Asher and Rebecca Jeanmonod
12. Skin complaints: Case 1 Efrat Rosenthal
Case 2 Efrat Rosenthal
Case 3 Sundeep M. Shukla and Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 4 Amanda Shorette
Case 5 Benjamin Kitt
Case 6 Rebecca Jeanmonod
Case 7 Dorka M. Jimenez Almonte
Case key.

Rebecca Jeanmonod is Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adjunct), Associate Residency Program Director, and Institutional Review Board Chairman, St. Luke's University Health Network, Department of Emergency Medicine, Pennsylvania.

Shellie L. Asher is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Albany Medical College, New York.

Blake Spirko is Fellowship Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School – Baystate, Springfield, Massachusetts