Newborn Care Handbook

Author: Edited by M. Kloch et al.
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This popular "Newborn Care Handbook" provides you with the new methods for caring for normal and high-risk newborns. Due to the insights of experts from the Boston Newborn Medicine Collaborative Program, this handbook has become a comprehensive guide for evaluating and managing newborns. For easy and quick reference, the handbook is organized in an easily navigable outline format, with each chapter describing specific issues, including epidemiology, evaluation, treatment, complications, drug dosages, and extensive references. The handbook thoroughly discusses information related to normal infants, including physical examinations and nutrition. To quickly locate important information, the handbook cites flowcharts, diagrams, and tables, and provides step-by-step descriptions of general procedures. The appendices provide pharmacological information for newborns, pregnant women, and caregiving mothers. Every chapter in the 4th edition is new, with added chapters describing developmental interventions, ethical dilemmas, and visual and auditory evaluations. The handbook also fully explores the new advancements in prenatal diagnosis and treatment, genetics, infections, and issues such as maternal substance abuse and neonatal drug addiction.