Pediatric Physical Examination & Health Assessment explores physical examinations of pediatric clients from newborn through adolescence including how to conduct and assess them. A beginning guide for those learning to perform physical examination on patients from birth through adolescence, this text describes the many examination techniques for infants and children throughout their development. Approaching each system from a developmental perspective, each chapter addresses a specific system and is divided into four major components: interviewing techniques on how to approach to the infant, toddler, preschool, school-age, and adolescent, anatomy and physiology pertinent to each age group, examination techniques developmentally appropriate for each age group, and normal variations and common abnormal findings.