Description
This handbook is a comprehensive, concise, and accessible guide to the care of newborn infants, both healthy and ill. It provides the essential core of practical knowledge that pediatricians, family practitioners, residents, neonatal nurse practitioners, and medical students need to deliver optimal care to all neonates. The book can be easily read during a one-month neonatal rotation and used for quick reference.
Normal newborn care, neonatal disease processes, and neonatal procedures are discussed and illustrated in a straightforward manner. The appendix provides a newborn formulary. The book also includes a chapter on caring for the family mourning a perinatal loss.
Features
--Easy to understand approaches to the problems you'll confront in the care of newborn infants
--Outlined and illustrated clinical procedures provide excellent reviews before performing bedside procedures
--Neonatal formulary lists medications and dosing unique to the neonatal population
--Clinical pearls highlight key messages at the conclusion of each chapter
--Wide range of excellent photography, illustrations, and diagrams give an inside look at common neonatal disease processes and neonatal procedures
--Outlined and illustrated clinical procedures provide excellent reviews before performing bedside procedures
--Neonatal formulary lists medications and dosing unique to the neonatal population
--Clinical pearls highlight key messages at the conclusion of each chapter
--Wide range of excellent photography, illustrations, and diagrams give an inside look at common neonatal disease processes and neonatal procedures
About the Author(s)
- David E Hertz MD
- Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
Specs
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9780781755856
- Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
- Pages: 272
- Pub Date: Apr 5, 2005
- Weight: 1.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
- Care of the Normal Newborn and Family . . . 1
Mitchell A. Harris and Mary R. Ciccarelli - Resuscitation . . . 6
David W. Boyle and William A. Engle - Physical Examination of the Newborn . . . 23
Caroline Rose Paul and Mitchell A. Harris - Assessment of Gestational Age . . . 35
Julia Foster - Thermoregulation . . . 43
Vicki Powell-Tippit - Infant Nutrition . . . 47
Brenda B. Poindexter - Common Metabolic Problems: Hypoglycemia, Hyperglycemia, and Hypocalcemia . . . 55
Scott C. Denne - Jaundice . . . 60
Jo Ann E. Matory - Nonsurgical Causes of Respiratory Distress . . . 73
William A. Engle, Michael Stone Trautman, and Kimberly E. Applegate - Surgically Correctable Causes of Respiratory Distress . . . 93
Alan P. Ladd and Jay L. Grosfeld - Oxygen: Use and Monitoring . . . 108
Matthew E. Abrams and Neal Simon - Apnea . . . 125
Jo Ann E. Matory - Infectious Diseases . . . 131
David E. Hertz - Congenital Heart Disease in the Neonate . . . 148
Anne G. Farrell and Randall L. Caldwell - Fluid and Electrolyte Management . . . 165
Vicki Powell-Tippit - Neonatal Neurology . . . 173
Deborah K. Sokol and Gregory M. Sokol - Necrotizing Enterocolitis . . . 182
Michael Stone Trautman, Diane Estella Lorant, and William A. Engle - Abdominal Surgical Emergencies . . . 188
Scott A. Engum and Jay L. Grosfeld - Hematologic Disorders . . . 197
Mark Lawrence Edwards and Mervin C. Yoder - Stabilization and Preparation of the Infant for Transport . . . 207
Vicki Powell-Tippit - Caring for the Family Mourning a Perinatal Death . . . 213
Maureen Shea and James A. Lemons - Appendix: Newborn Formulary . . . 219
William F. Buss Index . . . 229
