Main description:

Challenging Cases in Pediatric Hospital Medicine is a collection of interesting pediatric hospital medicine cases that address clinical conundrums or issues and are to be used as teaching cases of clinical reasoning. Other cases will use inpatient care as a launching point for complex ethical dilemmas or system-based care.

Each chapter begins with the clinical competencies that will be addressed and the patient presentation. Next, the chapter steps through the case workup and management, as well as the case outcome and follow-up. Chapters conclude with valuable pearls, discussions of aspects of care that are not just disease management but a true reflection of the scope of pediatric hospital medicine. Recommended readings round out each chapter.

Contents:

1. Asthma Care Challenges in Adolescents
2. Prolonged Fever and Rash
3. Thinking Beyond Bronchiolitis
4. Apnea in Infancy
5. Cough and Chest Pain
6. Pelvic Pain
7. Chronic Leg Pain
8. Right Upper Quadrant Pain in an Adolescent
9. Palliative Care in Hospital Medicine
10. Nutrition and Autism Spectrum Disorder
11. Managing Eating Disorders in the Hospital
12. Altered Mental Status
13. Persistent Neonatal Jaundice
14. Fever and Refusal to Walk
15. Failure to Thrive Beyond Infancy
16. Breastfeeding Difficulties
17. Intentional Ingestion
18. Convulsive-like Movements
19. Hypotonia and Poor Feeding
20. Unintentional Lead Poisoning
21. Prolonged Fever and Joint Pain
22. Newborn with In Utero Polysubstance Exposure
23. Developmental Regression and Transaminitis
24. Food Allergy in Infancy
25. Attention-Seeking Behaviors in Parents
26. Severe Headache
27. Hand Swelling After an Animal Bite
28. Care of Medically Complex Patients
29. Fever of Unknown Origin in a Child Who Has Immigrated
30. Case of Extreme Inflammatory Response
31. Chronic Congestion and Wheezing
32. A Newborn with Black Stools
33. Diabetic Ketoacidosis
34. Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Complications
35. Recurrent Stridor
36. Sickle Cell Disease and Cognitive Biases
37. Incomplete Maternal History Confounds Diagnosis
38. Recurrent Pancreatitis
39. Direct Hyperbilirubinemia in a Newborn
40. Clavicular Mass and Fever
41. Abdominal Mass and Fever
42. Agitation in an Adolescent
43. Newborn Screening and Failure to Thrive
44. Unusual Bruising in an Active Child
45. Infant with Fever
46. Staphylococcal Skin Abscess
47. Neonatal Hypoglycemia
48. Urinary Tract Infection
49. Kawasaki Shock Syndrome
50. Cardiac Arrest