Essential Neonatal Medicine, Includes Desktop Edition

by Sinha, Sunil; Miall, Lawrence; Jardine, Luke

• ISBN13: 9780470670408
• ISBN10: 0470670401
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-17
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

As the technology for keeping premature and sick babies alive improves, those working in neonatal units are called upon to display an ever-wider range of skills and to manage more and more patients. To support all health professionals experiencing the discipline of neonatology for the first time, Essential Neonatal Medicine offers the depth and background of a textbook combined with the information overview and level of detail of a learning consolidator, allowing its users to gain an overall picture of the specialty and making them aware of key conditions, procedures and diagnoses. This edition includes new chapters on neonatal consequences of maternal disease, congenital abnormalities, developmental care and environment, extreme preterm births and small for gestational age infants. Now in full colour, it includes chapter introductions and key points, tips, end-of-chapter summaries, fully updated further reading lists, and a section of self-assessment questions and answers. Fully cross-referenced with the best-selling Wiley nursing title Nursing the Neonate, it is also accompanied by a FREE enhanced Wiley Desktop Edition - the interactive digital version of the book with downloadable text and images, highlighting and note-taking facilities, book-marking, cross-referencing, in-text searching, and linking to references and glossary terms

Author Biography

Professor Sunil Sinha is Professor of Paediatrics & Neonatal Medicine at the University of Durham & James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough

Dr Lawrence Miall is a Consultant in Neonatal Medicine at Leeds General Infirmary

Dr Luke Jardine is a Neonatologist at Mater Mothers' Hospital, Brisbane and Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland

Table of Contents

Preface to the fifth edition

Preface to the first edition

Acknowledgements How to get the best out of your textbook

Fetal wellbeing and adaptation at birth

Perinatal epidemiology and audit

Multiple births

Neonatal consequences of maternal disease

Resuscitation at birth

Examination of the Newborn

Birth Injury

Genetic disorders

Infant feeding and nutrition

Infection

The extreme preterm infant

The low birthweight infant

Respiratory disorders

Apnoea, bradycardia and airway obstruction

Respiratory physiology and respiratory support

Cardiovascular disorders

Gastrointestinal and abdominal disorders

Renal disorders

Jaundice

Haematological disorders

Endocrine and metabolic disorders

Neurological disorders

Neurodevelopmental follow-up and assessment of hearing and vision

Developmental care and the neonatal environment

Organization of perinatal services and transport

Discharge and follow up of high risk infants

Parental attachment and loss

Ethical issues in critical care

Procedures

Index

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