This handbook is a comprehensive, concise, and accessible guide to the care of newborn infants, both healthy and ill. It provides the essential core of practical knowledge that pediatricians, family practitioners, residents, neonatal nurse practitioners, and medical students need to deliver optimal care to all neonates. The book can be easily read during a one-month neonatal rotation and used for quick reference.
Normal newborn care, neonatal disease processes, and neonatal procedures are discussed and illustrated in a straightforward manner. The appendix provides a newborn formulary. The book also includes a chapter on caring for the family mourning a perinatal loss.
• Easy to understand approaches to the problems you'll confront in the care of newborn infants
• Outlined and illustrated clinical procedures provide excellent reviews before performing bedside procedures
• Neonatal formulary lists medications and dosing unique to the neonatal population
• Clinical pearls highlight key messages at the conclusion of each chapter
• Wide range of excellent photography, illustrations, and diagrams give an inside look at common neonatal disease processes and neonatal procedures