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	Case Reports in Dermatology
	Author(s)/Faculty: Aimee Smidt, MD; Anne Laumann, MBChB, MRCP(UK), FAAD; Vani Selvan, MD; Tetyana L. more Vasylyeva, MD; Curtis Turner, MD; Osvaldo Regueira, MD; Helkha Peredo-Pinto, MD; Norman M. Jacobs, MD
	Source: PEDIATRIC ANNALS 37:2	Type: Journal	Number of Articles: 3
	Release Date: February 2008	Expiration Date: February 28, 2011	Cost: $25.00 / $85.00
	Credit Type: CME	Number of Credit(s): 3.00	Provider:
	OVERVIEW Early in each physician’s training, it is emphasized that every patient encounter offers an opportunity to be a detective. Using deductive reasoning based on the "clues" presented, the physician strives to solve the mystery of the patient’s illness. Dermatological issues most commonly present in the primary care setting and from there are referred to a specialist. As frontline evaluators of these complaints, each physician must, at times, play detective to discover the real cause for the patient’s symptoms. This issue of Pediatric Annals presents three case vignettes in which the patient or patients suffer from an unusual systemic cause for their skin findings. As well, two short reviews of environmental causes for skin irritation are provided to alert the practicing healthcare professional to increasingly common but often overlooked chemical irritants in children. After reviewing this issue of Pediatric Annals, the participant will be more keenly aware of subtle clues to systemic disease that present on a patient’s skin, as well as better able to provide counseling to families whose child has developed a sensitivity to chemical irritants.


	Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorders
	Author(s)/Faculty: Jeanne Van Cleave, MD; Laurel K. Leslie, MD, MPH; Marc Lerner, MD; Tim Wigal, PhD; more Richard H. Gilchrist, MD; L. Eugene Arnold, MEd, MD; Steven W. Evans, PhD; Brandon K. Schultz, EdS; Joanna M. Sadler, BS
	Source: PEDIATRIC ANNALS 37:1	Type: Journal	Number of Articles: 4
	Release Date: January 2008	Expiration Date: January 31, 2011	Cost: $25.00 / $105.00
	Credit Type: CME	Number of Credit(s): 3.00	Provider:
	OVERVIEW For decades, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been the most common chronic psychiatric disorder of childhood. More recent population studies indicate that ADHD rivals asthma as one of the most commonly diagnosed chronic conditions in children. Yet despite its prevalence, little formal training is available to pediatricians in the effective and efficient office management of affected children. Indeed, approaching ADHD with a chronic disease model is a relatively new concept. Finding a proven evidence-based approach to the assessment and management of ADHD has long been considered a priority for many pediatricians. In the past decade, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) led the charge to develop a standardized toolkit for the assessment, diagnosis, and ongoing management of ADHD in the primary care setting. Still, little is known about the long-term safety and efficacy of currently available medical and behavioral treatments for ADHD, or their appropriate application to preschool children. The advent of newer and longer acting pharmaceutical agents has also placed a further burden of proof on accepted standard treatment paradigms. This issue of Pediatric Annals provides five timely discussions of ADHD using a chronic disease model. Safety and efficacy of standard and new treatment modalities are presented and current knowledge of side effects discussed. A unique model of ADHD as a disturbance of functioning is also presented to give a different viewpoint of this common disorder. After reviewing this issue, the participant will have a more complete view of ADHD as a chronic condition.

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