Full Description
Now in full color for the first time, Workbook in Practical Neonatology, Seventh Edition, uses a highly effective, case-based approach to provide practical clinical guidance on evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of newborns. World-renowned neonatologist Dr. Richard Polin and new editor Dr. Thomas Hays lead a team of expert contributing authors who offer case studies followed by questions, answers, and explanations in every chapter. You'll find authoritative guidance on the problems you're most likely to see in practice, including issues regarding resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, anemia, fluid therapy, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The 7th Edition has been extensively revised, with new authors, new charts and graphs, and many new cases throughout.
Organizes chapters around case studies, followed by questions and answers that require you to make diagnostic decisions and help you understand how scientific concepts apply to each clinical problem
Guides you step-by-step through patient care with abundant diagnostic algorithms, illustrations, and decision trees
Features a new full-color format that offers better visual clarity in design, figures, and diagrams
Shares the expertise of many new authors throughout, as well as new editor Dr. Thomas Hays
Provides online access to echocardiograph and fluoroscopic video clips that show you what to expect and how to proceed
An ideal learning tool and everyday reference for practicing neonatologists, as well as students, trainees, nurses, and other clinicians
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Contents
1. A Physiologic Approach to Neonatal Resuscitation
2. Perinatal Hypoxia-Ischemia
3. Fluid and Electrolyte Management in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit
4. Glucose Metabolism and Neonatal Hypoglycemia
5. Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
6. Practical 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. Neonatal Acute Kidney Injury and Early Chronic Kidney Disease
19. Neonatal Seizures
20. Intraventricular Hemorrhage
21. Necrotizing Enterocolitis
22. Diagnostic Approach and Clinical Management of Metabolic Encephalopathy in Newborns
