The first neonatal handbook to focus on clinical protocols and best management practices
Clinical Guidelines in Neonatology provides a compilation of the most current and authoritative clinical care recommendations for the neonatal patient. The goals of this innovative text are to help deliver effective, evidence-based neonatal care; foster consensus in practice; and to enable clinicians to deliver the best value for every healthcare dollar spent. Readers will find it to be a comprehensive source of clinical recommendations, care paths, and guidelines to help them manage the most commonly encountered neonatal conditions.
Spanning all major areas of neonatal care, Clinical Guidelines in Neonatology bypasses dense explanations in favor of high yield text and ready-to-apply evidence-based management guidelines. Chapters follow a uniform presentation of neonatal conditions that include the scope, major recommendations, implementation of guidelines into practice, summary, and bibliographic sources.
Features:
• Chapters focus on clinical management practices and evidence-based supporting data rather than lengthy descriptions of disease and practice• Covers all major areas of neonatal and perinatal medicine, including antenatal and perinatal management; neonatal transition; nutrition, fluids, and electrolytes; respiratory distress; cardiovascular disorders; blood disorders; infections; endocrine and metabolic disorders; and neurological issues• Text is supplemented by evidence-based diagnostic and treatment algorithms, detailed illustrations, and clinical images
Contents:
I. Antenatal and Perinatal Management
1. Gestational Disorders
2. Maternal Conditions
3. Fetal assessment
4. Prenatal diagnosis
5. Perinatal infections
6. Limits of viability
II. Neonatal transition
7. Newborn assessment at birth
8. Resuscitation
9. Well newborn
10. Newborn screening
11. Hypoglycemia
12. Temperature management
13. Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and hypothermia
14. Birth injuries
15. Anomalous infant
16. Neonatal sepsis
17. Infant of drug dependent mother
18. Neonatal transport
19. SGA/LGA infants
20. Multiple gestations
III. Nutrition, Fluids and Electrolytes
21. Breast feeding
22. Formula feeding
23. Parenteral nutrition
24. Hyperkalemia and hypokalemia
25. Hypernatremia and hyponatremia
26. Acidosis and alkalosis
IV. Respiratory Distress
27. Respiratory distress syndrome and surfactant use
28. CPAP and oxygen delivery
29. Mechanical ventilation
30. Apnea of prematurity
31. Pneumothorax
32. Pulmonary hypertension
33. ECMO
34. Chronic lung disease
V. Heart and Circulation
35. Hypotension
36. Approach to the cyanotic infant
37. Approach to infant with pulmonary circulation
38. Shock
39. Ductus dependent lesions
40. Patent ductus arteriosus
41. Tetrology of Fallot
42. Arrhythmias
VI. Blood Disorders
43. Anemia and transfusions
44. Thrombocytopenia
45. Polycythemia
VII. Gut Disorders
46. NEC
47. Intestinal perforation
48. Intestinal obstruction
49. Short gut syndrome
50. Abdominal wall defects
VIII. Infections
51. Sepsis
52. Candida infections
53. TORCH infections
54. HIV and sexually transmitted diseases
IX. Jaundice and Liver Disorders
55. Neonatal jaundice
56. Direct hyperbilirubinemia
57. Neonatal hepatitis
X. Endocrine and metabolic disorders
58. Hypothyroidism
59. Hypocalcemia
60. Hyperammonemia
61. Ambiguous genetilia
62. Approach to inherited metabolic disorders
XI. Neurological issues
63. Neonatal seizures
64. Intraventricular hemorrhage
XII. Renal issues
65. Acute renal failure
66. Chronic renal failure
67. Obstructive uropathy
XIII. Miscellaneous
68. Retinopathy of prematurity
