Main description:

Workbook in Practical Neonatology provides authoritative guidance on neonatal evaluation and management of the problems that you are most likely to see in practice. Meticulous revisions and updates incorporate advances in neonatal care, including hypotension, mechanical ventilation, and early discharge. An ideal learning tool for beginners and a valuable reference for experienced healthcare professionals, its interactive, case-based approach allows you see to diagnosis and treatment in a clinical context and test your knowledge with review questions and answers for each topic.

Contents:

1. Neonatal Resuscitation

2. Perinatal Asphyxia

3. Fluid and Electrolyte Management in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit

4. Glucose Metabolism

5. Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia

6. Parenteral Nutrition

7. Enteral Nutrition

8. Anemia

9. Respiratory Distress Syndrome

10. Principles of Mechanical Ventilation

11. Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

12. Neonatal Apnea

13. Neonatal Sepsis

14. Patent Ductus Arteriosus

15. Neonatal Hypotension

16. Congenital Heart Disease in the Newborn Period

17. Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn and Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

18. Renal Failure in Neonates

19. Neonatal Seizures

20. Intraventricular Hemorrhage

21. Surgical Emergencies in the Newborn

22. Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Index