Overview
- This volume offers both a clear overview and a practical approach to neonatal diseases
- It will represent an up-to-date educational resource
- It will provide the most reliable references from trustworthy authors and centers where the reader can find the latest information on these difficult subjects
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This new textbook wants to offer to neonatologists and pediatricians a modern and complete view of the various problems and aspects of neonatology, currently one of the most complex and advanced fields of pediatrics.
The first chapters will be dedicated to the epidemiology of neonatal mortality and morbidity and to the conditions responsible for neonatal risk. A section will be devoted to organizational problems of hospitals and home services for efficient modern neonatal and infant care.
Particular attention will be paid to neonatal care, medico-legal questions, examination of newborns and current availability of laboratory facilities and instrumentation for identification of perinatal abnormalities. Neonatal nutritional problems will also be examined, outlining current knowledge of the needs of sick and healthy babies. Conditions jeopardizing fetal health such as diabetes, maternal drug abuse and smoking will be discussed. New advances in neonatal pharmacology will be extensively examined.
Various diseases of the neonate involving lungs, heart, gastrointestinal tract, blood, immune system, endocrine system and kidneys will be also expounded in special chapters. Fetal and neonatal infections will be extensively discussed. Fetal and neonatal neurological abnormalities will be discussed by highly specialized authors. There will be chapters on neonatal ophthalmology, dermatology and orthopedics.
Each chapter has beeb written by a well recognized international expert in his or her field. As the opinion leader in their field, the Author is responsible for giving the most up-to-date information in terms of what is known, what is still being researched, and what has become evidence based medicine. Underlying causes and mechanisms of neonatal diseases will be presented in an immediate form. The use of summaries, tables, and accurately selected guidelines or recommendations that will accompany the text will supply quick references and instant solutions to the concerned neonatologists during their daily practice.
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Table of contents (148 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Epidemiology and Fetal Neonatal Medicine
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neonatology
Book Subtitle: A Practical Approach to Neonatal Diseases
Editors: Giuseppe Buonocore, Rodolfo Bracci, Michael Weindling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1405-3
Publisher: Springer Milano
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Milan 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-1405-3Published: 28 January 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 1350
Number of Illustrations: 400 b/w illustrations
Topics: Pediatrics, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, Maternal and Child Health, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Nursing