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Inside, you’ll find everything you need to know about perinatal lung diseases • common neonatal complications • congenital diseases • pediatric pulmonary and upper airway diseases • and neuromuscular disorders. A streamlined presentation helps you easily grasp the background, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, management and treatment, and the course and prognosis of each disease.

In every chapter, unfolding case studies with full-color illustrations and photographs enhance your critical-thinking skills, making it easy to connect theory with practice. Plus, multiple-choice review questions help you assess your progress.

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    1.  Making Sense of Caring for Kids: A Different Approach to Respiratory Care
I.  Fetal Development and Transition to Extrauterine Life
    2. Fetal Cardiopulmonary Development
    3.   Resuscitation of the Newborn During Transition to Extrauterine Life
II. Perinatal Lung Diseases and Complication
    4.  Respiratory Distress Syndrome
    5.   Apnea of Prematurity and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
    6.   Diseases of Full-term infants
III. Common Neonatal Complications
    7.   Pulmonary Complications
    8.   Multi-system Complications
IV. Congenital Anomalies
    9.   Abdominal Defects
   10.  Airway abnormalities
   11.  Acyanotic Heart Defects
   12.  Cyanotic Heart Defects
V. Pediatric Diseases with Respiratory Implications
   13.   Asthma
   14.   Cystic Fibrosis
   15.   Pediatric Pulmonary Diseases
   16.   Pediatric Infectious Airway Diseases
   17.   Neuromuscular Disorders
   18.   Pediatric Accidents with Pulmonary Involvement
   19.   Pediatric Neurologic Accidents
VI. Ethics and Pediatric Palliative Care
    20.  Ethics in Perinatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care
    21.  Palliative and End-of-Life Care
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