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PEPID PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE CLINICAL TOPICS NEONATOLOGY • CEPHAL HEMATOMA • CYSTIC FIBROSIS • ABDOMINAL AND CHEST WALL • CEREBRAL PALSY • CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV) DEFECTS (NEONATE AND INFANT) • CHRONIC NEONATAL LUNG • DELAYED TRANSITION • ABNORMAL HEAD SHAPE DISEASE • DRUG EXPOSED INFANT • ABO-INCOMPATIBILITY • COMNGENITAL PARVOVIRUS B 19 • ERYTHROBLASTOSIS FETALIS • ACNE - INFANTILE • CONGENITAL CANDIDIASIS • EXAMINATION OF THE NEWBORN • ALIGILLE SYNDROME • CONGENITAL CATARACTS • EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION • AMBIGUOUS GENITALIA • CONGENITAL CMV • EYE MISALIGNMENT • AMNIOTIC FLUID ASPIRATION • CONGENITAL COXSACKIEVIRUS • FETAL HYDRONEPHROSIS • ANAL ATRESIA • CONGENITAL DYSERYTHROPOIETIC • FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION • ANEMIA - SEVERE AT BIRTH ANEMIA • FFEDS/FLUIDS - PRETERM • ANEMIA OF PREMATURITY • CONGENITAL EMPHYSEMA • FPIES(FOOD PROTEIN INDUCED • ANHYDRAMNIOS SEQUENCE • CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA ENTEROCOLITIES SYNDROME) • APGAR SCORE • CONGENITAL GOITER • GASTRO INTESTINAL REFLUX • APNEA OF PREMATURITY • CONGENITAL HEART BLOCK • GROUP B STREPTOCOCCUS • APT TEST • CONGENITAL HEPATIC FIBROSIS • HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE OF THE • ASPHYXIATING THORACIC DYSTRO- • CONGENITAL HEPATITIS B NEWBORN PHY (JEUNE SYNDROME) INFECTION • HEPATIC RUPTURE • ATELECTASIS • CONGENITAL HEPTITIS C • HIV • ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECTS INFECTION • HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASE • BARLOW MANEUVER • CONGENITAL HYDROCELE • HYDROCEPHALUS • BECKWITH-WIEDEMANN SYN- • CONGENITAL HYPOMYELINATING • HYDROPS FETALIS DROME • CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM • HYPOGLYCEMIA OF INFANCY • BENIGN FAMILIAL NEONATAL • CONGENITAL INFECTIONS • HYPOTHYROIDISM - PRETERM SEIZURE • CONGENITAL MITRAL STENOSIS • HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHA- • BIRTH ASPHYXIA AND HYPOXIC • CONGENITAL MYOPATHY LOPATHY (HIE) ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY (HIE) • CONGENITAL NEPHROSIS • INDICATIONS FOR PHOTOTHERAPY • BIRTH INJURIES • CONGENITAL PTOSIS • INFANT DEARH • BIRTH TRAUMA AND SCALP LUMPS • CONGENITAL RUBELLA • INFANT OF DIABETIC MOTHER • BIRTH WEIGHT ABNORMALITIES • CONGENITAL SYPHILIS • INFANT OF MOTHER WITH HYPER- • BIRTHMARKS AND NEVI • CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS TENSION AND PREECLAMPSIA • BLISTERING IN NEONATES • CONGENITAL VZV INFECTION • INFANTILE ACNE • BLOOD ASPIRATION • CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE (CHF) • INTESTINAL PERFORATION • BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA • COW’S MILK PROTEIN ALLERGY • INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE • BYLER DISEASE • CRITICAL AORTIC STENOSIS • INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDA- • CAPUT SUCCEDANEUM • CRITICAL NEONATAL PULMONARY TION (IUGR) • CATARACTS STENOSIS • INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE • CENTRAL RESPIRATORY DEPRES- • CRYPTORCHIDISM • KERNICTERUS SION AFTER MATERNAL EXPOSURE • CYANOSIS DIFFERENTIAL • LARSEN SYNDROME TO MEDICATIONS, INCLUDING • CYANOTIC SPELLS • LARYNGOMALACIA LABOR ANALGESIA AND ILLICIT • CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFOR- • LARYNGOTRACHEOMALACIA DRUGS. MATION OF LUNG • LATE ONSET SEPSIS PEPID | Chicago | Phoenix | Montréal | London (847) 491-9100 or (888) 321-7828 (toll free) | www.pepid.com PEPID PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE TOPICS • LEUKOCORIA NATORUM AND GONOCOCCAL • NEONATAL SEIZURES • LIVER MASSES ARTHRITIS) • NEONATAL SEPSIS • LONG QT SYNDROME • NEONATAL HEMATURIA • NEONATAL SEPSIS SYNDROME • MECONIUM ASPIRATION • NEONATAL HEMOCHROMATOSIS • NEONATAL SHIGELLA SYNDROME • NEONATAL HEPATITIS • NEONATAL SVT • MECONIUM ILEUS • NEONATAL HERPES • NEONATAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA • MECONIUM ILEUS EQUIVALENT • NEONATAL HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED • NEONATAL TORTICOLLIS - • MECONIUM PERITONITIS INFECTION CONGENITAL • MECONIUM PLUG • NEONATAL HPOPHOSPHATEMIA • NEONATAL UNCONJUGATED • MECONIUM PLUG SYNDROME • NEONATAL HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA JAUNDICE (SMALL LEFT COLON SYNDROME) • NEONATAL HYPERCALCEMIA • NEONATAL VACCINATION • MEDIASTINAL MASSES • NEONATAL HYPERGLYCEMIA • NEONATAL VAGINAL BLEEDING • METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHY- • NEONATAL HYPERMAGNESIUMIA • NEONATAL VARICELLA LOCOCCUS AUREUS IN THE NICU • NEONATAL HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA • NEONATAL VASCULAR ACCESS • MILIA • NEONATAL HYPERTHYROIDISM • NEONATAL VENTRICULAR • MILIARIA • NEONATAL HYPOCALCEMIA TACHYCARDIA • MONGOLIAN SPOTS • NEONATAL HYPOGLYCEMIA • NEONATAL VOMITING • NARCOTIC USE IN NEONATES • NEONATAL HYPOTHYROIDISM • NEUROBLASTOMA • NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS • NEONATAL HYPOTONIA • NEWBORN BLOOD PRESSURE (NEC) • NEONATAL INTESTINAL • NEWBORN FLUID MANAGEMENT • NEONATAL DRUG WITHDRAWAL OBSTRUCTION • NEWBORN RESUSCITATION • NEONATAL JAUNDICE • NEONATAL INTRACRANIAL • NYSTAGMUS • NEONATAL ABSTINENCE SYN- HEMORRHAGE • OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS SEQUENCE DROME (NAS) • NEONATAL JAUNDICE • OMPHALITIS • NEONATAL ALLOIMMUNE • NEONATAL JITTERINESS • OMPHALOCELE NEUTROPENIA • NEONATAL LISTERIOSIS • OROFACIAL CLEFTS • NEONATAL ALLOIMMUNE • NEONATAL LIVER FAILURE • ORTOLANI MANEUVER THROMBOCYTOPENIA (NAIT) • NEONATAL LUNG DISEASE - • PEARSON’S SYNDROME • NEONATAL ANEMIA CHRONIC (BPD) • PERINATAL ASPHYXIA • NEONATAL ANURIA AND OLIGURIA • NEONATAL LUPUS • PERINATAL DEATH • NEONATAL AORTIC STENOSIS • NEONATAL MASTITIS • PERINATAL TUBERCULOSIS (TB) • NEONATAL APNEA • NEONATAL MENINGITIS • PERIVENTRICULAR LEUKOMALACIA • NEONATAL ASPHYXIA • NEONATAL MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY • PERSISTENT FETAL CIRCULATION • NEONATAL BACTERIAL MENINGITIS • NEONATAL NEUTROPENIA • PERSISTENT PULMONARY HYPER- • NEONATAL BIRTH INJURIES • NEONATAL NUTRITION,BREAST TENSION OF THE NEWBORN (PPHT) • NEONATAL BRACHIAL FEEDING AND PARENTERAL • PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME PLEXOPATHIES FEEDING • PLACENTAL TRANSFUSION • NEONATAL CENTRAL LINE • NEONATAL OXYGEN THERAPY (INCLUDING TWIN-TO-TWIN INFECTIONS • NEONATAL PAIN MANAGEMENT TRANSFUSION), • NEONATAL CF SCREENING • NEONATAL PHHI(PERSISTENT • PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM • NEONATAL CHOLESTASIS HYPERINSULINEMIC HYPOGLYCE- • POLYCYTHEMIA OF THE NEW BORN • NEONATAL COARCTATION MIA OF INFANCY) • POSTERIOR URETHRAL VALVES • NEONATAL COLLAPSE • NEONATAL PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM • PREMATURITY • NEONATAL CONJUGATED • NEONATAL PNEUMONIA • PRETERM & LBW BLOOD PRESSURE JAUNDICE • NEONATAL PNEUMOPERICARDIUM • PROPTOSIS • NEONATAL CONJUNCTIVITIS • NEONATAL PNEUMOTHORAX • PULMONARY HEMORRHAGE • NEONATAL CYANOSIS • NEONATAL POLYCYTHEMIA • PULMONARY HYPERTENSION • NEONATAL DOWN SYNDROME • NEONATAL PULMONARY AIR LEAKS • PULMONARY HYPOPLASIA • NEONATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY • NEONATAL PULMONARY STENOSIS • PULMONARY INTERSTITIAL • NEONATAL ENTEROVIRUS • NEONATAL RASH AND DERMATO- EMPHYSEMA INFECTIONS LOGIC PROBLEMS • RED SCALY BABY • NEONATAL FLUID MANAGEMENT • NEONATAL RENAL DISEASE • RESPIRATORY DISTRESS • NEONATAL FUNGAL INFECTIONS • NEONATAL RENAL FAILURE SYNDROME • NEONATAL GI BLEEDING • NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS • RESUS: NEONATAL COLLAPSE • NEONATAL GIT SURGERY SYNDROME • RETINAL HEMORRHAGE • NEONATAL GONOCOCCAL • NEONATAL RESUSCITATION • RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA INFECTIONS(OPTHALMIA NEO- • NEONATAL SCREENING • RETINOBLASTOMA PEPID PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE TOPICS • RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY • ARTHROGRYPOSIS • DUODENAL STENOSIS • RH-ALLOIMMUNIZATION • BENIGN FAMILIAL MACROCEPHALY • DUPLICATION 9q34 • SEDATION AND ANLGESIA IN THE • BILIARY ATRESIA • DYSGENETIC GONADS NEONATE • BLADDER EXTROPHY • DYSPLASIA OF HIP • SEVERE CONGENITAL • BLOOM SYNDROME • EBSTEIN ANOMALY NEUTROPENIA • BRANCHIAL CLEFT CYST • ECTODUCTYLY • SEVERE PULMONARY EDMA • BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME • EDWARD SYNDROME • SGA • CAUDAL REGRESSION SYNDROME • ELLIS VAN CREVELD • SHOCK • CCAM(CONGENITAL CYSTIC • ENCEPHALOCELE • SHORT GUT SYNDROME ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION) • ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT • SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ SYNDROME • CHARGE ASSOCIATION • EPIGASTRIC HERNIA • SSRI NEONATAL WITHDRAWAL • CHIARI MALFORMATION • EPISPADIAS • SUB VALVULAR AORTIC STENOSIS • CHOANAL ATRESIA • ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA • SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS • CHROMOSOMAL DISORDERS • ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA AND • SUDDEN INFANT DEATH • CLEFT LIP TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA SYNDROME (SIDS) • CLEFT PALATTE • ESOPHAGEAL DUPLICATION • SUDDEN NEONATAL COLLAPSE • CLOACAL EXSTROPHY • FEMALE • SVT • COARCTATION OF THE AORTA PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM • TETANUS NEONATORUM • COLOBOMAS • FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM • TONGUE TIE • COLONIC ATRESIA DISORDERS (FASD) • TORTICOLLIS • CONGENITAL KNEE DISLOCATIONS • FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME • TOXIC ERYTHEMA • CONGENITAL ADRENAL • FETAL HYDANTOIN SYNDROME • TRANSIENT HYPOIMMUNOGLOBU- HYPERPLASIA (CAH) • FETAL WARFARIN SYNDROME LINEMIA OF INFANCY • CONGENITAL AMPUTATION • FRAGILE X BEHAVIOR • TRANSIENT TACHYPNEA OF THE • CONGENITAL ANTRAL STENOSIS • FRAGILE X SYNDROME NEW BORN (TTN) • CONGENITAL CLUB HAND OR • GASTRIC DUPLICATION • UMBILICAL GRANULOMA FINGERS • GASTROSCHISIS • UMBLICAL CATHETERIZATION • CONGENITAL CORNEAL OPACITY • GENITAL ANOMALIES IN FEMALES • UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION • CONGENITAL CYSTIC ADENOMA- • GENOMIC IMPRINTING • URINARY TRACT INFECTION IN THE TOID MALFORMATION • GOLDENHAR SYNDROME NEWBORN • CONGENITAL DEAFNESS • HALLERMANN-STREIFF SYNDROME • URTICARIA NEONATORUM • CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGMATIC • HIRSCHSPRUNG’S DISEASE • VACTERL ASSOCIATION HERNIA • HOLOPROSENCEPHALY • VASOSPASM AND THROMBOEMBO- • CONGENITAL DISLOCATION OF THE • HORSE SHOE KIDNEY LISM IN THE NEONATE HIP (CDH) • HYPERTROPHIC PYLORIC STENOSIS • VITELLOINTESTINAL DUCT • CONGENITAL DYSTROPHIC PTOSIS • HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART • VOLVULUS • CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE • HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART • WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME • CONGENITAL HIP DYSPLASIA SYNDROME • WITHDRAWAL - DRUGS • CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS • HYPOSPADIUS • XXXXY SYNDROME • CONGENITAL MACRODACTYLIA • IDIOPATHIC SCROTAL EDEMA • CONGENITAL MDI (MULTI • ILEAL ATRESIA CONGENITAL DIRECTIONAL INSTABILITY OF THE • IMPERFORATE ANUS MALFORMATIONS SHOULDER) • INGUINAL HERNIA • ACHONDROPLASIA • CONGENITAL SMA(SPINAL • INTERRUPTED AORTIC ARCH • AGENESIS OF THE CORPUS MUSCULAR ATROPHY)
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