The Harriet Lane Handbook: Text with Downloadable PDA Software

By Nicole Shilkofski and Jason Robertson

For more than 50 years, The Harriet Lane Handbook has been the pediatrician's reference of choice and for good reason. Its unsurpassed diagnostic and management guidance, recommended tests, complete therapeutic information, and comprehensive drug formulary make it essential for anyone who treats children. Now, the 17th Edition is completely revised and updated to provide readers with the latest treatments, guidelines, procedures, and management recommendations all in the easy-to-use, quick-access format that's made it a bestseller. BONUS handheld software lets you download and synchronize diagnostic and management guidelines, recommended tests, complete therapeutic information, a comprehensive drug formulary with FDA pregnancy notations and trade/generic name drug index, and more than 15 medical calculators.Comes with bonus handheld software. Organizes a wealth of information into a convenient, pocket-sized format. Focuses on the safety and efficacy of drugs in children.Covers FDA Pregnancy Category notations and information on the effects of drugs in breast milk.Includes step-by-step emergency management protocols, growth charts, and more.Uses an outline format for each disease chapter with algorithms, charts, tables, and drawings that highlight critical information.Offers a new section on pediatric allergy covering food allergy . RAS testing vs. skin testing . and more. Features a new chapter on rhuematologic disorders of children, including SLE, rheumatic fever, and JRA.Integrates key surgical topics, such as neonatal surgical issues encountered in the NICU and the acute abdomen in the ER, into existing chapters.Provides updates to the trusted trademark formulary, including indications for use in lactating women, side effects, drug interactions, and precautions, plus the latest drugs and dosages approved for pediatric patients.Presents a new streamlined organization with redundancies removed and more visual elements added.Uses all redrawn line drawings to incorporate a 2nd color, making reference easier than ever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323029175
• ISBN13: 9780323029179
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 1166 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.4" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

I use it every day

The reference I use most at work as a nurse practitioner. I especially love the drug guide, vaccine charts and info, peak flows, and vitals norms for ages.

The Harriet Lane Handbook: A Manual for Peduatric House Officers, 17th edition

This book is a must for anyone who cares for children in their practice.

Great little book!

Contains a huge amount of information about pediatrics. Extremely helpful when studying for tests or when making rounds and seeing patients in the clinic.

significantly improved edition, required book for peds residents

Harriet is Harriet. If you're going into pediatrics, this is your handbook or white coat book of choice. It is NOT adequate for everything-you-need to know, and there's plenty that's not in here, but it's still the handbook I go to multiple times a day as a resident. The new edition is significantly improved--there is now a rheumatology section, the medications are updated, and the fluids chapter has been rewritten (the earlier version was downright byzantine). Of course, the spine does not seem changed to be stronger, and I'm afraid that pages will start falling out in about a year or so. I think it's worth having the new edition personally, but I can't absolutely recommend it if you have the previous edition (it depends on how often you use it, and what 50 bucks means to you).

Excellent Text - A must for the Peds/FP resident

The new Harriet Lane contains the same often used, well referenced sources a family medicine resident needs to provide competent care to children. Updates include a reworked fluids electrolytes and nutrition section which has more algorithms and is much more user-friendly than in prior versions. I haven't downloaded the PDA software included with the text yet, but my colleagues are reporting it cumbersome to use. I enjoy keeping multiple references on my PDA, and will likely test the software at a future date. - A third year resident in a family medicine residency.