The first pocket-size resource to guide PA students through their pediatrics rotationPrepare for and thrive during your clinical rotations with the series, The Physician AssistantStudent’s Guide to the Clinical Year. The Pediatrics edition of this seven-volume seriesdelineates the exact duties required in this specialty.Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach tocommon presentations such as cough, fever, and skin changes. It also provides asystems-based approach to more than 60 of the most frequently encountered diseaseentities you will see in this rotation, including dermatitis, pharyngitis, and otitis media.Distinguished by brief, bulleted content with handy tables and figures, this referenceoffers all pertinent laboratory and imaging studies needed to confirm a diagnosis, withmedication and management guidelines. This guide also describes the most commonprocedures you will learn, including foreign body removal, reduction of a subluxed radialhead, and administration of nebulizer treatments. A special chapter on management ofurgent pediatric conditions, such as asthma exacerbation, head injuries, and fractures,is also included.
