Reference Range Values for Pediatric Care

Dr Lamia Soghier, MD, MEd, FAAP, is an Associate 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.

Introduction
1. Conversations
2. Scales and Scoring
3. Growth
4. Blood Pressure
5. Reference Range Values
6. Hyperbilirubinemia Management
7. Rate and Gap Calculations
8. Nutrition, Formula Preparation, and Caloric Counts
9. Umbilical Vein and Artery Catherization Measurements
10. Does and Levels of Common Antibiotic and Antiseizure Medications
11. Appendixes