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...

• 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.