Clinical Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases: A Reference and Guide to Neonatal Sepsis, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Immunization Science & Organ-System Infection Syndromes - Brossura

Braun, Eric M.

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798258704719

Casa editrice: Independently published, 2026

Riassunto

The child in front of you is septic, three weeks old, and your empiric regimen has to be right the first time.
Pediatric infectious diseases punishes diagnostic ambiguity faster than almost any other specialty — the wrong antibiotic, the missed meningitis, the fever without a source in a neonate who looks "okay" until they don't.

This book builds the clinical reasoning framework that connects pathogen biology to bedside decision-making across every pediatric age group, every organ system, and every level of immune competence.

Inside this book:

• Age-stratified sepsis thinking — understand exactly why a 72-hour-old and a 6-week-old with fever require entirely different empiric regimens, and why cephalosporins alone will miss Listeria every time
• Febrile infant risk stratification — apply the PECARN Febrile Infant Rule with the mechanistic confidence to know when LP can be safely deferred
• Antimicrobial pharmacodynamics in children — dose by developmental pharmacokinetics, not scaled adult math, using AUC-guided vancomycin and extended-interval aminoglycoside principles
• Immunocompromised host infections — navigate febrile neutropenia, post-transplant CMV timelines, and HLH recognition with a single integrated clinical framework
• Congenital and neonatal infections — diagnose the TORCH complex, congenital syphilis, and congenital CMV before irreversible neurodevelopmental injury occurs
• Vaccine science and hesitancy communication — use the presumptive recommendation approach and motivational interviewing to turn ambivalent families into protected children
• Global and travel medicine — evaluate the febrile returning traveler systematically, with malaria films as the non-negotiable first step

This book is for pediatric residents, infectious disease fellows, hospitalists, general pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants who manage infectious illness in children from birth through adolescence.

Buy this book as a commitment to the child who needs your clinical reasoning to be faster, deeper, and more precise than a protocol alone will ever make it.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798258704719
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 391
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