Essential Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Author: Stefano Guandalini
A practical and concise guide to gastrointestinal, hepatic, and nutrition disorders in the pediatric patient. Featuring a large amount of tables, lists, and other summary features, this book provides practitioners and residents with a quick but substantial reference. Includes a drug formulary for common prescriptions.
Stefano Guandalini, MD
Director, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
University of Chicago Children’s Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Chicago School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Dr. Guandalini directs the pediatric GI division for a large academic medical center and is one of the best-known pediatric GI specialists in the world. He is immediate past president of the European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology. He has published innumerable original research articles in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and has been published in the academically rigorous and highly selective Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Reviewer: Essam Imseis, M.D. (Ochsner Clinic Foundation)
Description: This book provides a concise summary of common gastrointestinal signs and symptoms, gastrointestinal disease, liver disease, pancreatic disease, and pharmacotherapy and nutrition in the pediatric patient.
Purpose: The purpose is to offer a comprehensive, yet succinct, presentation of most of the disorders of pediatric gastroenterology. This is a worthy objective since the pediatrician often has a large volume of information to master with new information available every day. The author meets the objectives by providing a quick, easy to read book with lots of information for clinicians.
Audience: The audience includes general pediatric residents as well as general pediatricians who require quick valuable information in an easy to read format.
Features: The book covers a variety of topics in pediatric gastroenterology, including signs and symptoms of disease, gastrointestinal disease, liver disease, pancreatic disease, and pharmacotherapy. The book contains an excellent summary of several topics, including pancreatitis and neonatal jaundice. The chapter on recurrent abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome is very useful. Each chapter had clear, concise information that would be valuable to general pediatricians.
Assessment: This book is valuable to general pediatricians or pediatric residents in the outpatient setting since it provides a good base of knowledge on most pediatric gastroenterology topics in a very concise, easy to read format. Numerous tables and figures in each chapter provide information on symptoms and signs of specific illness, diagnostic work-up, and treatment. These figures and tables are extremely useful and packed with information, and glancing at these alone can provide a significant amount of background on a particular topic.
Rating
3 Stars from Doody
Table of Contents:
| I | Approach to gastrointestinal signs, symptoms, and tests | 1 |
| 1 | Recurrent vomiting | 3 |
| 2 | Acute diarrhea | 15 |
| 3 | Chronic and intractable diarrhea | 25 |
| 4 | Failure to thrive/malnutrition | 47 |
| 5 | Constipation | 69 |
| 6 | Recurrent abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome | 77 |
| 7 | Intestinal obstruction | 95 |
| 8 | Jaundice in the newborn and young infant | 111 |
| 9 | Portal hypertension and ascites | 123 |
| 10 | Interpretation of some common GI tests and procedures | 133 |
| II | Gastrointestinal disorders | 141 |
| 11 | Achalasia | 143 |
| 12 | Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis | 153 |
| 13 | Gastroesophageal reflux | 157 |
| 14 | Cow's milk allergy | 175 |
| 15 | Gastrointestinal and feeding problems of the neurologically handicapped child | 193 |
| 16 | Eosinophilic gastroenteropathy | 209 |
| 17 | Helicobacter pylori gastritis and gastroduodenal ulcers | 213 |
| 18 | Celiac disease | 221 |
| 19 | Short gut syndrome | 231 |
| 20 | Small bowel bacterial overgrowth | 241 |
| 21 | Crohn's disease and indeterminate colitis | 251 |
| 22 | Ulcerative colitis | 261 |
| 23 | Clinical management of gastrointestinal polyps in children | 269 |
| 24 | Intussusception | 277 |
| 25 | Appendicitis | 281 |
| III | Liver and pancreatic disorders | 291 |
| 26 | Acute and recurrent pancreatitis | 293 |
| 27 | Viral hepatitis | 307 |
| 28 | Liver transplantation : indication, modalities, and medical follow-up | 319 |
| 29 | Approach to the asymptomatic child with protracted hypertransaminasemia | 335 |
| IV | Pharmacotherapy and nutrition | 345 |
| 30 | Commonly employed drugs : dosage recommendations and side effects | 347 |
| 31 | Medical nutrition therapy in the pediatric patient | 389 |
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Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians
Author: Joanne Lynn
Health care professionals seeking to improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness and nearing the end of life will find exactly what their organization needs in the second edition of this acclaimed book by Dr. Joanne Lynn and her colleagues. Improving Care for the End of Life provides expert guidance on how to make significant improvements now, at all levels of the health care system from the bedside and the hospital to the health care policy and legislative arenas by using the rapid-cycle breakthrough approach to change. The ideas are proven, and the stories of teams that have put them to use will inspire and enlighten.
New to the second edition: New chapters to address issues of growing interest such as continuity of care, and the special needs of dementia patients and their loved ones. Details on trajectories of care and how these affect decisions at the end of life Updated and expanded information on pain management, advance care planning, ventilator withdrawal, depression and delirium, advanced heart and lung disease, and more Scores of new insights, measurement approaches, and tips based on the experiences of hundreds of improvement teams nationwide Thoroughly updated references
The sourcebook speaks to all managers of health care systems serving people with serious illnesses, including doctors in offices, nurse managers on hospital units, social workers in long-term care facilities, administrators of home care and hospice agencies, hospital chaplains, directors of volunteer services, and others.
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Reviewer:Susan A Jessell, MSN,CRNP,ACHPN(Western Pennsylvania Hospital)
Description:First published in 2000, this is a sourcebook for organizations interested in improving end of life care. From instruction in the rapid cycle approach to quality improvement to tips on getting things started, this book is a wealth of information on specifically what can be done to improve end of life care in many different patient populations.
Purpose:The purpose is to give readers the best available advice on how to make improvements in the healthcare systems in which they work. The book does this through examples of models of programs across the country including a compendium of resources and samples of data collection instruments. There are also examples of what did not work.
Audience:This book would be most helpful not only to those in end of life care looking for ways to enhance and improve existing programs, but also for those who are creating programs in palliative care or hospice. Nurse managers, administrators of home care and hospice agencies, and medical directors will find real guidance.
Features:The four parts cover quality improvement methods based on the rapid-cycle breakthrough approach with many examples of how practices were improved. The second part deals with changes that families and patients think are most important or would most benefit from. Part 3 describes the role of palliative care services and their financing with strategies for improving these areas. Part 4 addresses specific disease systems and ways to address and improve services and medical management in the patient population of Alzheimer's, end stageheart disease, dementia, and others. The list of resources at the end of each chapter is helpful. This updated edition has new chapters on continuity of care and expanded information on pain management, advanced care planning, and more.
Assessment:This is a book that will be referenced often for its innovative ideas, resources, and usable tools.
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