This unique Point-of-Care Quick Reference tool lets you jump right to concise information, useful for immediate decision-making.

Enter a topic to immediately locate the topline information you need covering: definition, background, epidemiology, evaluation, interventions, resources, and more.

Information is distilled to just what you need during or between typical patient encounters. No sifting through paragraphs of content to find what you want. Click, scan, and go.

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Pediatric Care Online™ includes the complete contents of the new AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care.

More than just another book, its focus on practical needs and innovative structure make it a go-to reference for day-to-day information needs.

Its right-to-the-point approach provides clear, evidence-based recommendations. No more wading through mounds of text to get to the point.

The pragmatic aspects of managing your practice are covered as well, with a wealth of useful resources.

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Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 3rd Edition, is an integral part of Pediatric Care Online™.

Its comprehensive health supervision guidelines include recommendations on immunizations, routine health screenings, and anticipatory guidance.

These guidelines help you make the most of well-child visits, promote healthy lifestyle choices, monitor children for physical and behavioral pathology, and provide age-appropriate and individualized counseling (or anticipatory guidance).

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Complete dosing, administration, and other medication data is provided through this comprehensive database. Easily look up medications by brand or generic name to find appropriate pediatric administration and dosing information.

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An instructional tool (based on the AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care chapter), that lets you easily find information about classes of antimicrobials and helps you to determine their appropriate use.

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Hundreds of images, complete with captions, let you visualize a broad spectrum of conditions such as

• Hypotonia
• Back pain
• Osteomyelitis
• Shock
• High blood pressure
• Macrocephaly
• Cystic fibrosis
• Facial dysmorphism
• And many more

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Stay abreast of the updates and new content added to Pediatric Care Online™ regularly.

Updates and new content are culled from continuous monitoring of breaking news from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), as well as through AAP committees, sections, and councils.

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Stay abreast of ongoing developments in pediatric medicine.

News will be culled from continuous monitoring of breaking news from the AAP and other healthcare sources, as well as through AAP committees, sections, and councils.

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Infectious disease topics found throughout Pediatric Care Online™ are enhanced with information from the Red Book® 2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 27th Edition.

Detailed information concerning infectious diseases, antimicrobial agents, prophylaxis, and therapy are drawn from this valuable resource. Links embedded throughout the content of Pediatric Care Online™ take you directly to complete Red Book® monographs for full details when you need them.

Red Book® content encompasses the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 childhood infectious diseases.

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This unique presentation of the AAP periodicity schedule allows you to find recommendations for each well-child visit, including history, measurements, physical examination, and more.

Signs & Symptoms Search quickly suggests diagnoses for the symptoms you enter.

Start by selecting signs or symptoms from a list. The system automatically generates a list of associated disease entities. By choosing additional symptoms you can narrow the possibilities. Then, click on a disease name to view Point-of-Care Quick Reference content.

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With just one click, quickly find a useful algorithm for

• Preventive cardiology
• Neonatal jaundice
• Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Anemia and pallor
• Fever
• High blood pressure in infants, children, and adolescents
• Anuria and oliguria
• Kawasaki disease
• Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy

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Hundreds of patient handouts let you provide parents with easy-to-read explanations for a wide range of conditions and procedures, including

• Allergic Rhinitis
• Children, Adolescents, and the Media
• Meningococcemia
• Chickenpox
• Violence Prevention
• Conduct Disorders
• Immunizations
• Diabetes Mellitis
• And many more

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Quick links to hundreds of forms, questionnaires, checklists, and toolkits on a large variety of topics.

• Counseling Families on Healthy Lifestyles
• Injury Prevention
• Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome
• Domestic Violence
• Asthma
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Autism
• And much more

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Many useful clinical calculators are always at hand. Simply enter values into an on-screen form. Calculators include

• BiliTool
• BMI Calculator
• Pathologic Proteinuria Calculator
• Childhood Immunization Scheduler
• Pneumothorax
• Milestones Checklist
• Quality Dividend Calculator™ 2006

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Customize your Pediatric Care Online™ experience.

• Create bookmarks of favorite topics for quick reference.
• Create, modify, and delete folders.
• Search archives by date range with a calendar search.
• Manage your AAP account.

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Compatible with Palm, Windows Mobile, and Pocket PC, handheld versions of key content from Pediatric Care Online™ are included for use on your mobile handheld. These mobile tools make it even more practical to do quick lookups, even between patients.

• Point-of-Care Quick Reference
• Bright Futures
• Bright Futures Pocket Guide
• Pediatric Drug Lookup
• Interactive Periodicity Schedule
• Signs & Symptoms Search
• Antimicrobial Therapy Guide
• Pediatric Care Updates

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