Full Description
This exciting new reference brings you information about the most controversial hematology, immunology, and infectious disease challenges you face in your practice. The book confidently tackles these subjects and gives seasoned advice on the latest diagnostic and treatment strategies using evidence-based medicine wherever possible. It gives you the latest information you need to keep pace with the fast-paced, dynamic environment of neonatology.Reconsider how you handle difficult practice issues with coverage that addresses these topics head on and offers opinions from the leading experts in the field, supported by evidence whenever possible.Find information quickly and easily with a consistent chapter organization.Get the most authoritative advice available from world-class neonatologists who have the inside track on new trends and developments in neonatal care.Purchase each volume individually, or get the entire 6-volume set, which includes online access that allows you to search across all titles! Stay current in practice with coverage on issues on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of neonatal thrombocytopenia, diagnostic technologies in the management of congenital infection, and much more.Access the fully searchable text online at www.expertconsult.com.
Contents
1. Updated Information on Stem Cells for the Neonatologist 2. Current Issues in the Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment of Neonatal Thrombocytopenia3. The role of recombinant leukocyte colony-stimulating factors in the neonatal intensive care unit4. non-hematopoietic effects of erythropoietin5. Why, When and How Should We Provide Red Cell Transfusions and Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents to Support Red Cell Mass In Neonates6. Diagnosis and Treatment of Immune Mediated and Non-Immune Mediated Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn7. Controversies in Neonatal Thrombotic Disorders8 A Practical Approach to the Neutropenic Neonate9. What evidence supports dietary intervention to prevent infant allergy and food allergy development?10. Maternally-mediated Neonatal Autoimmunity11. CMV: Diagnosis, treament and considerations on vaccine mediated prevention12. Neonatal T-Cell Immunity and it's Regulation by Innate Immunity an Dendritic Cells?13. Breast Milk and Viral Infection 14. Probiotics for the prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm neonates 15. The Ureaplasma conundrum: should we look or ignore? 16. Control of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 17. Neonatal Fungal Infections18. Use of Biomarkers for detection of early and late onset neonatal sepsis19. Chorioamnionitis and its effects on the fetus/neonateIrina A. Buhimschi
