The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult

The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult provides immediate, point-of-care advice on conditions seen in infants, children, and adolescents.

This best-selling application addresses more than 460 common complaints and diseases in the fast-access 5-Minute Consult format popular among busy clinicians. This edition offers emergency department content, including ingestion of caustics, opioids, and ecstasy-type drugs. Material on childhood obesity, metabolic syndrome and probiotics is included.

Other areas of information include:

- Basics: Genetics, incidence/prevalence, signs and symptoms, causes, risk factors
- Diagnosis: Differential diagnosis, laboratory, pathological findings, special testing, imaging
- Treatment: Appropriate healthcare, general measures, surgical measures, activity, diet, patient education
- Medications: Drug(s) of choice, contraindications, precautions, interactions, alternative drugs/therapies
- Follow-up: Monitoring, prevention, complications, expected course/prognosis
- Miscellaneous: Associated conditions, age-related factors, notes, pregnancy, synonyms, ICD-9, references

Lexi-Comp software products are one-year subscriptions.