The Harriet Lane Handbook: Mobile Medicine Series, Expert Consult: Online and Print, 18e [Paperback]

Johns Hopkins Hospital (Author), Jason W. Custer (Author), Rachel E. Rau (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0323053033 | ISBN-13: 978-0323053037 | Publication Date: August 18, 2008 | Edition: 18

The Harriet Lane Handbook represents over 50 years of expert guidance for pediatric residents and all those who treat children. This irreplaceable manual is your everyday reference for fast, accurate bedside consultation. The book's trademark formulary will be regularly updated online, to keep you absolutely current. New or revised chapters on palliative care, toxicology, dermatology, and growth and nutrition help you streamline diagnosis and treatment. Still convenient and pocket-sized, this latest edition includes Expert Consult functionality, so you can access the complete contents of the book online, fully searchable.

• Remains a convenient, pocket-sized reference, so you can carry a wealth of information with you.
  
• Includes step-by-step emergency management protocols, growth charts, and more to help you streamline diagnosis and treatment.
  
• Organized in a modified outline format so you can find information quickly and easily, even in the most demanding circumstances.

• Provides a regularly updated trademark formulary online to help you get the latest on pediatric drugs and dosages.
  
• Adds a new palliative care chapter for more well-rounded guidance.
  
• Includes unprecedented access to the complete contents of the book online, completely searchable, with downloadable images.
  
• Incorporates the latest treatment and management recommendations, immunization guidelines, procedures, and therapeutic guidelines so you can stay completely up to date.
  
• Revises the toxicology and the growth and nutrition chapters to be even more user-friendly and practical.
  
• Reorganizes the dermatology chapter to make information even easier to find.

Web site access will be provided until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1184 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 18 edition (August 18, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323053033
• ISBN-13: 978-0323053037
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars eBook version: good idea, doesn't work, July 17, 2011

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D. Prozzo (Stockbridge, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Harriet Lane Handbook E-Book: Mobile Medicine Series - Expert Consult (Kindle Edition)

I'm sold on eBooks and do all of my reading-for-pleasure that way, so I was excited to try an important medical text on my Kindle. Unfortunately, it simply didn't work. The chief problem is that it is very difficult to find anything. In a physical book, one can quickly page through to the desired chapter or index entry. Not so with the Harriet Lane in the Kindle. Firstly, the chapter entries in the Table of Contents are not clickable links, so there is no easy way to get to the first page of a chapter, the formulary, or the index. Using the Kindle search to find a topic or drug isn't helpful, because of course, typing in "amoxicillin" or "endocarditis" produces every reference to amoxicillin or endocarditis in the entire book - up to several pages of search results. To make it worse, the first mention of a drug in its formulary entry is as a graphic, not text, so it doesn't show up in a Kindle search.
There is also a glitch in the index. Page numbers after each index entry ARE clickable links, but the links to formulary entries are "misaligned." Clicking on the page number for a drug took me to the wrong formulary page, for the 3-4 drugs I checked.
Clearly, for a textbook to work on an ereader, the whole search method must be reworked. A simple method that displays every time a particular word appears in the book is plainly inadequate. So, just buy the real book.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for med students, January 6, 2009

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Violeta G. Cesin (Caracas, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Harriet Lane Handbook: Mobile Medicine Series, Expert Consult: Online and Print, 18e (Paperback)

I really liked how concise it is on the management of diverse pediatric pathologies, specially the algorithms. I am a med student and I found it very useful during my internship in pediatrics, specially in the emergency department. The section with the drugs and all the tips about them (dosage, adverse effects, when not to use it, etc) are really helpful for med students who won't specialise in this area and who want to have a general knowledge on this subject.
It's very helpful for a review on the area, not as a book for the first study of this subject.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfec t gift for graduating medical student, January 30, 2009

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Catherine Bartlett - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Harriet Lane Handbook: Mobile Medicine Series, Expert Consult: Online and Print, 18e (Paperback)

The Harriet Lane Handbook has long been a trusted resource for pediatric residents and a good quick reference for practicing pediatricians. Even in this day of internet access, having a pocket manual for quick access is valuable. The book is updated by the residents at John's Hopkins every couple of years and therefore remains current. It contains concise information on development, immunology, infectious diseases, drug doses, nutrition, lab values, etc etc.