Essential Neonatal Medicine

Providing a comprehensive yet concise guide for trainee doctors, neonatal nurses and midwives, Essential Neonatal Medicine continues to be an indispensable resource that combines the depth and breadth of a textbook with the efficiency of a revision guide.

Extensively updated and full-colour throughout, this edition includes new chapters on neonatal transport and palliative care, as well as further content on pathophysiology and embryology, quality improvement and risk management, infection control, and non-invasive ventilation.

With an improved artwork programme and a new glossary of terms, Essential Neonatal Medicine is ideal for all trainee health professionals new to neonatology, or looking for a comprehensive aid to support them.

Contents
Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1 The fetus, placenta and changes at birth

2 Perinatal epidemiology and audit

3 Multiple births

4 Neonatal consequences of maternal conditions

5 Resuscitation at birth

6 Examination of the newborn

7 Birth injury

8 Genetic disorders

9 Infant feeding and nutrition

10 Infection in the Newborn

11 The extreme preterm infant

12 The low-birthweight infant

13 The Respiratory System; physiology and respiratory support

14 Respiratory disorders

15 Apnoea, bradycardia and upper airway obstruction

16 Cardiovascular disorders

17 Gastrointestinal and abdominal disorders

17 Gastrointestinal and abdominal disorders

18 Renal disorders

19 Jaundice

20 Haematological disorders

21 Endocrine and metabolic disorders

22 The Central Nervous System

23 Neurodevelopmental follow-up and assessment of hearing and vision

24 Developmental care and the neonatal environment

25 Organization of perinatal services

26 Neonatal Transport

27 Discharge and follow-up of high-risk infants

28 Parent–infant attachment and support for parents of critically ill infants

29 Ethical issues and decision-making process in the treatment of critically ill newborn infants

30 End of Life Care and Palliative Care

Index

Sunil Sinha
Professor of Paediatrics
University of Durham
Consultant Neonatologist
James Cook University Hospital
Middlesbrough, UK

Lawrence Miall
Consultant Neonatologist
Quality Lead, Leeds Children’s Hospital
Leeds General Infirmary
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds, UK

Luke Jardine
Deputy Director Neonatology, Mater Mothers’ Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist Neonatology, Mater Mothers’ Hospital
Honorary Researcher, Mater Research
Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
Australia