Main description:

This comprehensive book thoroughly addresses common clinical challenges in newborns, providing an evidence-based, step-by-step approach for their diagnosis and management. Common Problems in the Newborn Nursery is designed to be an easy-to-use, practical guide, covering a full range of clinical dilemmas: bacterial and viral infections, jaundice, hypoglycemia, hypotonia, nursery arrhythmia, developmental dysplasia of the hips, newborn feeding, cardiac problems, late preterm infants, dermatology, anemia, birth injuries, ocular issues, as well as hearing assessments in the newborn.

Written by experts in their fields, each chapter begins with a clinical case presentation, followed by a discussion of potential treatment and management decisions and various differential diagnosis. Correct responses will then be explained and supported by evidence-based literature, teaching readers how to discern the normal from the abnormal, the emergent from the non-emergent, and how to make decisions concerning diagnosis encountered on a daily basis.

While this guide is directed towards health care providers such as pediatricians, primary care physicians, and nurse practitioners who treat newborns in the general nursery, this book will also serve as a useful resource for anyone interested in working with this vulnerable patient population, from nursing and medical students, to nurses, and residents in pediatrics or family practice.

Contents:

1 Post Resuscitation Care of the Depressed Newborn

2 Newborn Birth Injuries

3 Visual Diagnosis in the Newborn

4 Common Dermatological Conditions in the Newborn

5 Evaluation and Management of the Late Pre-Term Infant

6 Jaundice in the Newborn

7 Neonatal Bacterial Infections

8 Viral Infections in the Nursery

9 Anemia in the Nursery: When to Observe, When to Treat, and When to Refer

10 Neonatal Hypoglycemia

11 Disorders of Calcium, Phosphorous and Magnesium in the Newborn

12 Nutrition in the Newborn

13 Cardiology in the Newborn Nursery

14 Diagnosis and Management of Nursery Arrhythmia

15 Gastrointestinal Problems in the Newborn Nursery

16 Hypotonia in the Newborn

17 The Jittery Baby and Seizures

18 Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip

19 Ambiguous Genitalia and Problems with Sexual Differentiation

20 Dilemmas: Eye Problems in the Newborn

21 Hearing Assessment in the Newborn Infant