Síntomas/signos guía en urgencias pediátricas

New updated edition that changes the focus of what does the patient have? What do I do with the patient? It maintains the same objectives of emphasizing the performance of an orderly and systematic clinical assessment of the pediatric patient. Facilitates decision-making when faced with a child with a specific symptom/sign thanks to decision algorithms. Reaching a clinical diagnosis is a complex process where the theoretical knowledge of the professional, data from the clinical history, data observed in the examination and data from possible complementary tests are integrated. This process takes place in the brain where mental equations and algorithms are unconsciously assembled from all the data collected, to arrive at what to do with the patient and, sometimes, a suspected diagnosis. This second edition has maintained the concept of teamwork, counting among the authors expert pediatricians from different super-specialties (primary pediatricians, digestive, cardiologists, oncohematologists...), pediatric surgeons and traumatologists, pharmacologists, as well as internal doctors residents, and of course some of the most important members of the emergency team, pediatric nurse specialists.