Challenging Cases in Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Daniel A. Rauch, MD, FAAP, SFHM is the Chief of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr Rauch has been very involved in the development of the field of Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) with leadership roles in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Academic Pediatric Association, planning the national PHM conference and 2 separate regional conferences, starting the national PHM Fellows meeting, and helping move forward the PHM certification effort. He is coeditor of Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics, 2e, and Challenging Cases in Pediatric Hospital Medicine. Snezana Nena Osorio, MD, MS, FAAP is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Osorio, who serves as Vice Chair for Quality and Patient Safety in the Department of Pediatrics, leads the Department's Quality and Patient Safety initiatives, provides clinical care in the Division of General Academic Pediatrics, and serves as an educator in the Department. She is also an Attending Pediatrician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

1. Asthma Care Challenges in Adolescents 2. Prolonged Fever and Rash 3. Thinking Beyond Bronchiolitis 4. Apnea in Infancy 5. Cough and Chest Pain 6. Pelvic Pain 7. Chronic Leg Pain 8. Right Upper Quadrant Pain in an Adolescent 9. Palliative Care in Hospital Medicine 10. Nutrition and Autism Spectrum Disorder 11. Managing Eating Disorders in the Hospital 12. Altered Mental Status 13. Persistent Neonatal Jaundice 14. Fever and Refusal to Walk 15. Failure to Thrive Beyond Infancy 16. Breastfeeding Difficulties 17. Intentional Ingestion 18. Convulsive-like Movements 19. Hypotonia and Poor Feeding 20. Unintentional Lead Poisoning 21. Prolonged Fever and Joint Pain 22. Newborn with In Utero Polysubstance Exposure 23. Developmental Regression and Transaminitis 24. Food Allergy in Infancy 25. Attention-Seeking Behaviors in Parents 26. Severe Headache 27. Hand Swelling After an Animal Bite 28. Care of Medically Complex Patients 29. Fever of Unknown Origin in a Child Who Has Immigrated 30. Case of Extreme Inflammatory Response 31. Chronic Congestion and Wheezing 32. A Newborn with Black Stools 33. Diabetic Ketoacidosis 34. Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Complications 35. Recurrent Stridor 36. Sickle Cell Disease and Cognitive Biases 37. Incomplete Maternal History Confounds Diagnosis 38. Recurrent Pancreatitis 39. Direct Hyperbilirubinemia in a Newborn 40. Clavicular Mass and Fever 41. Abdominal Mass and Fever 42. Agitation in an Adolescent 43. Newborn Screening and Failure to Thrive 44. Unusual Bruising in an Active Child 45. Infant with Fever 46. Staphylococcal Skin Abscess 47. Neonatal Hypoglycemia 48. Urinary Tract Infection 49. Kawasaki Shock Syndrome 50. Cardiac Arrest

**** 4-Star Review "I found these cases to be clinically relevant, well presented, and valuable for clinicians including physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants at all levels of training and experience. Highly recommended." Joseph Hageman, MD University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine --Doody's Book ReviewsTM