The new edition of this essential handbook includes user-friendly modified outline format for easy access to information, new color dermatology photographs to aid in accurate diagnosis, updated information on AIDS, blood gases, and a new section on neonatal complications of various maternal conditions.

Here's a comprehensive, pocket-sized resource for the care of full-term newborns. It provides guidance on well-baby development, monitoring the newborn, non-acute disease management, patient education, and more. Concise and convenient, this is the perfect reference for anyone who cares for babies in the first hours of life. Presents cutting-edge chapters on prenatal diagnosis, screening, and genetics. Speeds information gathering with extensive charts and tables, procedures, laboratory observations and other essential data collected in appendices. Expedites access to vital information with a bulleted outline format. Offers relevant tables on cultural and religious considerations affecting care of the newborn. Enhances favorite figures to make visual information easier access. Adds Fast Facts, Pearls and Pitfalls and expert opinions to give you authority in a flash.

Our understanding of the management of diseases in the premature infant has changed dramatically in recent years, and it can be quite difficult to remain up-to-date on changes in this highly scientific field. Dr. Brodsky and Ms. Ouellette have worked together to create a comprehensive reference that covers both the pathophysiology and epidemiology of problems occurring in premature babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and the management of these problems once the infant has been released from the NICU to a community practice. The book emphasizes specific diseases that affect premature infants and focuses on two primary categories: background and management in the NICU, and management of specific illnesses after discharge from the NICU. Find information quickly using an up-to-date summary of the problems that are likely to affect the premature infant.Review helpful guidelines on feeding and growth, neurologic outcomes, developmental problems, retinopathy of prematurity, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and much more. Use easy-to-follow management algorithms to help diagnose and manage common issues in premature infants after discharge.Make effective decisions about screening, immunizations, counseling of parents, and more..Help families deal with the emotional impact of caring for a premature infant..Access a list of disease-specific websites for clinicians and families.

This book is intended to be a convenient resource for those who take care of full-term babies during their first hours and days of life. The 3rd Edition includes information about how a first born baby changes a family unit. The text covers how additional children, illness, or a congenital abnormality intensifies those changes. The PRIMARY CARE OF THE NEWBORN is also intended to be a companion to the HARRIET LANE HANDBOOK. Offers thoroughly updated and revised content throughout to reflect the very latest developments in the field. Presents a new chapter on prenatal diagnosis, screening and genetics. Addresses the emotional context for the care of the newborn, including a discussion of the psychosocial ambience of the newborn experience, in a new chapter (Ch. 30) titled "The Importance of Wasting No Time." Coverage examines the issues of firstborn babies and their role in the family as well as the impact of a newborn's illness or congenital abnormality on the family. Includes a completely rewritten and updated pharmacopoeia that details the newest drugs, dosages, indications, and much more. Expert authors and contributors include Carleton Lee, author of the Harriet Lane formulary and Beryl Rosenstein, author of the Pediatric Pearls handbook. Provides vivid, full-color illustrations, including numerous pictures of skin conditions, to help readers identify and manage a wide variety of neonatal conditions. Spanish version of 2nd edition also available, ISBN: 84-8174-292-9

The revised and updated second edition covers practical approaches to caring for healthy and high-risk infants. The book covers maternal and fetal health, care of the newborn after delivery, breastfeeding, follow-up care, common congenital anomalies, the newborn with a heart murmur or cyanosis, neurologic findings, primary care issues relating to infants requiring intensive care, and health and developmental outcomes. More than 40 chapters cover step-by-step guidance on what to do, when to admit, and when to refer. Recommendations and lists detailed references within each chapter. New in the second edition: 8 new chapters added including: Shared decision making around home technologies Endocrine disorders manifesting in the newborn period Optimizing Nutrition for the Preterm, Very Low-Birth-Weight Infant After Discharge From Neonatal Intensive Care Newborn Immunizations and Immune Prophylaxis Balancing Safe Sleep and Other Newborn Recommendations Vascular Anomalies Endocrine Disorders Presenting in the Newborn Period Shared Decision Making Around Home Technologies

The Newborn book is the essential reference for pediatric medical professionals that shows the significance of physical findings In the neonate.

This handbook is a comprehensive, concise, and accessible guide to the care of newborn infants, both healthy and ill. It provides the essential core of practical knowledge that pediatricians, family practitioners, residents, neonatal nurse practitioners, and medical students need to deliver optimal care to all neonates. The book can be easily read during a one-month neonatal rotation and used for quick reference. Normal newborn care, neonatal disease processes, and neonatal procedures are discussed and illustrated in a straightforward manner. The appendix provides a newborn formulary. The book also includes a chapter on caring for the family mourning a perinatal loss.