This handbook presents step-by-step protocols for telephone advice for more than 150 symptoms and complaints of pediatric patients. Written in algorithmic format, the protocols list questions the health care provider should ask the caller to reach a diagnosis and decide if the illness is best managed in the home, the office, or an emergency facility. Where appropriate, the authors provide detailed home care instructions for parents and alert parents to complications that would require a call back. The Second Edition features a new chapter on symptomatic therapy using home remedies and over-the-counter medications. This chapter includes instructions for administering medications to infants and children. Also new to this edition is a chapter on adolescent health problems. Most of the protocols in this edition include a new Additional Information section, which concisely explains the pathogenesis, natural history, evaluation, and management of the disease
Barton D. Schmitt, MD, FAAP, is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Director of the Sleep Disorder Clinic and Encopresis-Enuresis clinic at The Children's Hospital of Denver. He has written more than one-hundred articles for fellow pediatricians, as well as the book Pediatric Telephone Protocols and the computer software program The Pediatric Advisor, used by over four-hundred-and-fifty hospitals nationwide. Dr. Schmitt has received numerous awards for his work, including the American Academy of Pediatrics Education Award in 2004. He and his wife spend as much time as possible with their children and 6 grandchildren.
