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.

1. 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. Respiratory physiology and respiratory support -- 14. Respiratory disorders -- 15. Apnoea, bradycardia, and upper airway obstruction -- 16. Cardiovascular 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. Parental attachment and loss -- 29. Ethical issues in critical care -- 30. End-of-life care and palliative care.