The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition of this best-selling reference provides immediate, practical advice on problems seen in infants, children, and adolescents. More than 460 chief complaints and diseases are covered in the fast-access two-page outline format that makes "The 5-Minute Consult Series" titles so popular among busy clinicians. Other features of this title include a medication index, syndromes glossary, surgical glossary, laboratory values, and tables. The Fifth Edition has new emergency department material including ingestion of caustics, opioids, and ''ecstasy-type'' drugs. New material on childhood obesity, metabolic syndrome, and probiotics is also included. It provides a brand-new companion Website that offers the fully searchable text plus full-color clinical photographs from Chung/Boom/Datto/Matz, "Visual Diagnosis in Pediatrics". "The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, Fifth Edition" is also available for PDAs.