This completely updated text provides a comprehensive and readable reference to the pathophsiology, diagnosis, management, and prognosis for disease in the newborn, as well as describing the care of the normal neonate. The third edition has been restructured and revised to accommodate all advances as well as the new burgeoning issues in neonatology, notably cost and medico-legal aspects are fully addressed.
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Winner of Astra Prize for Medical Writing 1987.
SECTION ONE ORGANISATION and DELIVERY of NEONATAL CARE: Epidemiology. Organisation, In/Ex Utero Transfer, Trends. Standards & Audit Inc CESDI, BAPM. Costs. Care of the Family + Staff. Handling Death. Outcome. Specific Problems in Developing Countries. SECTION TWO PRENATAL LIFE: Basic Embryology. Basic Genetics. Obstetrics I: For the Neonatologist. Obstetrics II: Maternal Conditions. Antenatal Diagnosis, Screening, Fetal Rx. Information from the Placenta. SECTION THREE CARE AROUND the TIME of BIRTH: Delivery Room Care. First Hour Care. SECTION FOUR GENERAL NEONATAL CARE: Examination. Temperature Control. Feeding I Nutrition, Gut Phjysiol: Ii. Full Term, Iii. LBW. TPN. Intensive Care Monitoring. Well Term. Well Small. IDM. Twins. Pharmacokinetics. Analgesia. Infant of Drug Addicted Mothers. SECTION FIVE DISORDERS of the NEWBORN: Pulmonary Disease: Physiology, Acute Disease, Persistent Fetal Circulation, Chronic Disease, Apneoa, Malformations, Airway Problems. Cardiovascular Disease. Gastroenterology: Jaundice, Liver, Gastrointestinal/NEC, Congenital & Surgery. Haematology: Coagulation, Anaemia & Haemolytic, Polycythaemia, Use of Blood Products. Hydrops. Inherited Genetic Disease. Metabolic Disease: Glucose, Endocrine, Inborn Errors, Metabolic Bone Disease. Kidney & Urinary Tract: Fluid Balance, Renal, Neonatal Urology. Skin Disorders. Malignant Disease. Ophthalmology. Orthopaedics. Infection: Immunology, Infectious Disease. Neurology: Assessment of the CNS, Seizures, Haemorrhage at Term, Hypoxic Ischaemic Injury, Preterm Brain Injury, Hereditary CNS Disease, Muscle Disease, CNS Malfs. Iatrogenic Conditions in the Newborn. SECTION SIX PATHOLOGY, RADIOLOGY 7 BIOCHEMISTRY: the Postmortem Examination. The Biochemistry Laboratory. Neonatal Imaging. SECTION SEVEN ETHICS & The LAW: Ethics. The Law & The Neonate. Frequent Medico-Legal Problems. SECTION EIGHT PRACTICAL PROCEDURES: Procesures. SECTION NINE PHARMACOPEIA SECTION TEN APPENDICES: Haematological Values. EEG. Blood Pressure Values. Birthweight Centiles. Biochemical Values. Endotracheal Tube Lengths. Umbilical Catheter Lengths. CSF Values. Urine. Haemoglobin-Oxygen Saturation Curve. Siggard Anderson Nomogram. Shunt Equations. Squad Calls.
