Red Book Pediatric Infectious Diseases Clinical Decision Support Chart

Description

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this full-color chart collects many of the most clinically useful tables, algorithms, and other items from the Red Book, 32nd edition and presents them in an enlarged, enhanced, colorized format that is lightweight, portable and easy to navigate.
Additionally, new tables have been created exclusively for this chart, synthesizing important clinical information from the Red Book text.
Topics include:Staphylococcal Infections

Streptococcal Infections

COVID-19 and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

Diarrheal Infections

Immunizations

Antibiotic Prophylaxis

Immune Globulin

Kawasaki Disease

Tuberculosis

Lyme Disease

Varicella-Zoster

Fungal Infections

Genital and Neonatal Herpes

Syphilis

HIV

Immunocompromised Children and Adolescents

The second edition of this full-color chart collects many of the most clinically useful tables and charts from the Red Book and presents them in a colorized and easy to navigate chart.
  David W. Kimberlin, MD, FAAP is the Editor of the 2021 AAP Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book). He also was Editor of the 2015 and 2018 editions and was an Associate Editor of the 2012 and 2009 editions and served on the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases from 2005- 2011. Dr Kimberlin is the Sergio Stagno, MD. Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases, Professor and Co-Division Director, Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research. His clinical and research interests include pediatric infectious diseases, antiviral therapeutics in rare diseases with a large unmet medical need, including neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections, congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease, congenital Zika infection, neonatal and infantile influenza infection, and neonatal enteroviral sepsis syndrome. 1. Staphylococcal Infections
2. Streptococcal Infections
3. COVID-19 and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
4. Diarrheal Infections
5. Immunizations
6. Antibiotic Prophylaxis
7. Immune Globulin
8. Kawasaki Disease
9. Tuberculosis
10. Lyme Disease
11. Varicella-Zoster
12. Fungal Infections
13. Genital and Neonatal Herpes
14. Syphilis
15. HIV
16. Immunocompromised Children and Adolescents

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