Reference Range Values for Pediatric Care

Completely updated, this popular pocket guide provides commonly used reference ranges and values spanning birth through adolescence; plus, data needed for treatment of preterm and other newborns. This resource helps reduce search time for reference ranges and other critical values to optimize patient assessment and treatment.
 
TOPICS INCLUDE

• Conversions (conversion formulas and temperature conversions)
• Assessment scales and scoring
• Growth charts
• Blood pressure ranges
• Clinical chemistry values
• Immunization and periodicity schedules
• Hyperbilirubinemia management
• Rate and gap calculations
• Nutrition, formula preparation, and caloric counts
• Umbilical vein and artery catheterization measurements
• Dosages and levels of common antibiotic and antiseizure medications

 
 

Lamia Soghier, MD, FAAP is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington DC. She is a board-certified neonatologist and the Medical Unit Director of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the NICU Quality and Safety Officer at Children’s National Medical Center. She received her medical degree from the University of Alexandria in Egypt and completed her pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania and neonatology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, NY. Dr Soghier is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both Pediatrics and Neonatology. She is an active clinician and researcher, has been involved with multiple neonatology publications, and has been the lead editor of the AAP Reference Range Values in Pediatrics since 2012.
 
Dr Soghier is also the Director of Education at Children’s National. She obtained her master’s degree in medical education from the George Washington University in 2017. Dr Soghier has a profound interest in medical education for the care of newborns worldwide. She has travelled extensively to promote clinician education as a means of improving the health of newborns. Her research and education focus on application of novel technology in skill acquisition by pediatric trainees. She has spoken both nationally and internationally on medical education and neonatal research.

Karen Fratantoni, MD, MPH, FAAP is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine, a general academic pediatrician in the Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health, and the Medical Director of the Complex Care Program at Children’s National Medical Center. She is board certified in General Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Christine Reyes, MD is a pediatric pathologist affiliated with Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC where she is currently the Associate Chief of Pathology and Lab Medicine and the Director of Chemistry, Point of Care Testing and Clinical Lab Support Services. Prior to becoming a physician, Dr. Reyes was a Medical/Coronary Intensive Care nurse. She attended medical school at the University of New Mexico. Her post-graduate training included a transitional year at Emory University, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency at the George Washington University and pediatric pathology fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital. She is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, as well as Pediatric Pathology. She is Assistant Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at the George Washington University. She has been in practice for more than 15 years.