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The leading resource for collaborative critical care for newborns, Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care, 7th Edition provides a multidisciplinary approach and a real-world perspective. It focuses on evidenced-based practice, with clinical directions in color for easy retrieval and review. Special features help you prioritize the steps in initial care, and provide a guide to sharing information with parents. With each chapter written jointly by both physicians and nurses, this book is comprehensive enough to suit ... MORE
-Unique! A multidisciplinary perspective is provided by an editorial team of two physicians and two nurses, and each chapter is written and reviewed by a physician and nurse team, so information mirrors the real-world experience in a neonatal intensive care unit.
-Unique! Clinical content is in color, so you can quickly scan through chapters for information that directly affects patient care.
-Unique! Parent Teaching boxes highlight the relevant information to be shared with a patient's caregivers.
-Critical Findings boxes outline symptoms and diagnostic findings that require immediate attention, helping you prioritize assessment data and steps in initial care.
-Coverage in clinical chapters includes pathophysiology and etiology, prevention, data collection, treatment, complications, outcomes, prognosis, and parent education.
-Expanded Neonatal Surgery chapter covers all of the most common procedures in neonatal surgery.
-Follow-up of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Infant chapter is expanded to include coverage of outcomes management and discharge planning.
-Streamlined references are updated to include only the most current or classic sources.
| Evidence-Based Practice | |
| Evidence-Based Clinical Practice | |
| Support of the Neonate | |
| Prenatal Environment: Effect on Neonatal Outcome | |
| Perinatal Transport and Levels of Care | |
| Delivery Room Care | |
| Initial Nursery Care | |
| Heat Balance | |
| Physiologic Monitoring | |
| Acid-Base Homeostasis and Oxygenation | |
| Diagnostic Imaging in the Neonate | |
| Pharmacology in Neonatal Care | |
| Drug Withdrawal in the Neonate | |
| Pain and Pain Relief | |
| The Neonate and the Environment: Impact on Development | |
| Metabolic and Nutritional Care of the Neonatal | |
| Fluid and Electrolyte Management | |
| Glucose Homeostasis | |
| Total Parenteral Nutrition | |
| Enteral Nutrition | |
| Breast Feeding the Neonate with Special Needs | |
| Skin and Skin Care | |
| Infection and Hematologic Diseases of the Neonate | |
| Newborn Hematology | |
| Jaundice | |
| Infection in the Neonate | |
| Common Systemic Diseases of the Neonate | |
| Respiratory Diseases | |
| Cardiovascular Diseases and Surgical Interventions | |
| Neonatal Nephrology | |
| Neurologic Disorders | |
| Genetic Disorders, Malformations, and Inborn Errors of Metabolism | |
| Neonatal Surgery | |
| Psychosocial Aspects of Neonatal Care | |
| Families in Crisis: Theoretical and Practical Considerations | |
| Grief and Perinatal Loss | |
| Follow-up of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Infant | |
| Ethics, Values, and Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care | |
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