DESCRIPTION:
Written by leading global experts in the field, Principles of Neonatology provides those on the NICU team with clinically focused, evidence-based guidance in an easy-to-access format. Chapters cover the key topics of greatest and most frequent concern to clinicians treating newborns, delivering current, data-driven management and treatment advice in a single source relevant to the seasoned practitioner, fellow, or trainee.
Key Features:
- A highly templated format makes it easy to find exactly the information you need.
- Lavishly illustrated with photos, radiographs, drawings, and charts and graphs that clarify key concepts in a helpful and accessible way.
- Evidence-based focus ensures that only the most reliable treatment protocols and clear-cut, data-driven guidance are included.
- Coverage of all relevant topics in the NICU: skin lesions, congenital anomalies, architecture/development of neonatal intensive care units, pain control, anesthesia for newborn infants, and much more.
- Ideal for every member of the NICU team: neonatologists, neonatology fellows, residents, and neonatal nurses, as well as all other clinicians working in the NICU, including PAs, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, and others.
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
CONTENTS:
Section 1: Care of the Premature and Critically-Ill Neonate
1 Design of Neonatal Intensive Care Units
2 NICU Environment for Parents and Staff
3 Safe Use of Health Information Technology
4 Pharmacologic Management of Neonatal Pain and Agitation
5 Neonatal Transport
6 Radiation Safety in Premature and Critically-Ill Neonates
Section 2: Neonatal Resuscitation and Respiratory Care
7 Placental Transfusion in the Newborn
8 Neonatal Resuscitation
9 Golden Hour and Thermoregulation
10 Oxygen During Postnatal Stabilization
11 Respiratory Distress Syndrome
12 Invasive and Noninvasive Ventilation Strategies
13 Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn
14 Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
15 Treatment of Apnea of Prematurity
Section 3: Feeding
16 Human Milk
17 Storage and Use of Human Milk in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
18 Possible Benefits and Risks of Using Probiotics in Neonates
Section 4: Nutrition
19 Enteral Nutrition
20 Parenteral Nutrition in Neonates
21 Nutrition in Short Bowel Syndrome
22 Neonatal Nutrition Assessment
Section 5: Endocrine Disorders
23 Neonatal Hypoglycemia
24 Infants of Diabetic Mothers
25 Evidence-Based Neonatology: Neonatal Pituitary Hormone Deficiencies
26 Neonatal Thyroid Disease
27 Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Neonates
28 Disorders of Neonatal Mineral Metabolism and Metabolic Bone Disease
29 Disorders of Sex Development for Neonatologists
Section 6: Infections
30 Early-Onset Sepsis
31 Late-Onset Sepsis
32 Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infections
33 Postnatal Cytomegalovirus Infection Among Preterm Infants
34 Congenital Syphilis
35 Invasive Fungal Infections in the NICU: Candida, Aspergillosis, and Mucormycosis
Section 7: Cardiac Defects and Dysfunction
36 Congenital Heart Defects
37 Cardiac Defects_Anatomy and Physiology
38 Medical and Surgical Management of Critical Congenital Heart Disease
39 Neonatal Arrhythmia and Conduction Abnormalities
40 Pulmonary Hypertension in Chronic Lung Disease
41 Hemodynamic Assessment and Management of a Critically Ill Infant
Section 8: Jaundice, Blood Disorders, and Transfusions
42 A Practical Guide to Evaluating and Treating Severe Neonatal Indirect Hyperbilirubinemia
43 Neonatal Anemia
44 Evidence-Based Neonatal Transfusion Guidelines
45 Neonatal Thrombocytopenia
Section 9: Neurological Disorders
46 Management of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Using Therapeutic Hypothermia
47 Management of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Using Measures Other Than Therapeutic Hypothermia
48 Management of Encephalopathy of Prematurity
49 Neonatal Seizures
50 Stroke in Neonates
51 Using Biomarkers for Management of Perinatal Brain Injury
52 Intraventricular Hemorrhage and Posthemorrhage Hydrocephalus
