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Neonatology for the clinician

edited by Jeffrey J. Pomerance, C. Joan Richardson ; with associate authors

Appleton & Lange, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

In this work on neonatology, each chapter focuses on aetiology, clinical description, differential diagnosis and the treatments available.

Table of Contents

  • Choosing a delivery site
  • a primer on the biophysical evaluation of the foetus for the paediatrician and neonatologist
  • social interaction
  • writing progress notes
  • use and misuse of the consultant
  • maternal medication and its effects on the foetus/newborn
  • the placenta as an aid to diagnosis
  • evaluation of gestational age
  • resuscitation in the delivery room intra-uterine growth retardation
  • nutrition
  • thermoregulation - practical aspects
  • practical pharmacology for the paediatrician and neonatologist
  • infection in the neonate
  • practical immunology for the paediatrician and neonatologist
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
  • conditions mimicking infection in the newborn
  • hyperbilirubinemia
  • respiratory disorders
  • cardiac disease
  • necrotizing entercolitis
  • haematopoietic disorders
  • nonimmune hydrops foetalis
  • neurologic disorders
  • acute renal failure
  • surgical disorders
  • retinopathy of prematurity
  • genetic counselling by the paediatrician and neonatologist
  • the role of the computer in newborn medicine
  • ethics in newborn medicine
  • cost containment
  • malpractice litigation.

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