Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care
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...
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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 the needs of the entire team in your neonatal intensive care unit.• 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.
Unit One: Evidence-Based Practice1. Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Unit Two: Support of the Neonate2. Prenatal Environment: Effect on Neonatal Outcome3. Perinatal Transport and Levels of Care4. Delivery Room Care5. Initial Nursery Care6. Heat Balance7. Physiologic Monitoring8. Acid-Base Homeostasis and Oxygenation9. Diagnostic Imaging in the Neonate10. Pharmacology in Neonatal Care11. Drug Withdrawal in the Neonate12. Pain and Pain Relief13. The Neonate and the Environment: Impact on DevelopmentUnit Three: Metabolic and Nutritional Care of the Neonatal14. Fluid and Electrolyte Management15. Glucose Homeostasis16. Total Parenteral Nutrition17. Enteral Nutrition18. Breast Feeding the Neonate with Special Needs19. Skin and Skin CareUnit Four: Infection and Hematologic Diseases of the Neonate20. Newborn Hematology21. Jaundice22. Infection in the NeonateUnit Five: Common Systemic Diseases of the Neonate23. Respiratory Diseases24. Cardiovascular Diseases and Surgical Interventions25. Neonatal Nephrology26. Neurologic Disorders27. Genetic Disorders, Malformations, and Inborn Errors of Metabolism28. Neonatal SurgeryUnit Six: Psychosocial Aspects of Neonatal Care29. Families in Crisis: Theoretical and Practical Considerations30. Grief and Perinatal Loss31. Follow-up of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Infant32. Ethics, Values, and Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care
