Workbook in Practical Neonatology E-Book

by Richard Polin MD, Mervin C. Yoder MD

Overview

Using a highly effective, case-based approach, Workbook in Practical Neonatology puts neonatal evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment in a clinical context and tests your knowledge with questions and answers for each topic. You’ll find authoritative guidance on the problems you’re most likely to see in practice, including issues regarding resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, anemia, fluid therapy, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The 6th Edition has been extensively revised, with new authors, rewritten content, improved figures and tables, and many new cases throughout.

• Organizes chapters around case studies, followed by questions and answers that require you to make diagnostic decisions and help you understand how scientific concepts apply to each clinical problem.
• Guides you step-by-step through patient care with abundant diagnostic algorithms, illustrations, and decision trees.
• Features eleven chapters rewritten by new authors, new tables and algorithms, new cases, and updated discussions of existing cases.
• An excellent learning tool and everyday reference for practicing neonatologists, as well as students, trainees, nurses, and other clinicians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323624800
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	10/06/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Polin, Richard A., MD (Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians and Surgeons); Yoder, Mervin C., MD (Indiana Univ School of Medicine); Burg , Fredric D., MD (Univ of Alabama)

Table of Contents

1. Neonatal Resuscitation 
2. Perinatal Hypoxia-Ischemia 
3. Fluid&Electrolyte Management in Newborn Intensive Care Unit
4. Glucose Metabolism 
5. Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia 
6. Parenteral Nutrition
7. Enteral Nutrition
8. Anemia
9. Respiratory Distress Syndrome
10. Principles of Mechanical Ventilation
11. Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
12. Neonatal Apnea 
13. Neonatal Sepsis 
14. Patent Ductus Arteriosus
15. Neonatal Hypotension
16. Congenital Heart Disease in the Newborn Period 
17. Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn and Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
18. Renal Failure in Neonates
19. Neonatal Seizures 
20. Intraventricular Hemorrhage 
21. Surgical Emergencies in the Newborn 
22. Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jay P. Goldsmith, MD (Tulane University School of Medicine)
Description: This is the fifth edition of a practical, softcover workbook for trainees in neonatology. Not intended as a comprehensive textbook, it provides up-to-date information in a casebook format in 22 common areas of neonatal care.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide an interactive approach to education in the area of neonatal care. The scenarios are true to life and challenge readers with a question-and-answer format. This concept of active learning is fun and achieves the objectives of providing education in a more engaging way than a pure didactic fashion. The editors and their contributing authors have met this objective.
Audience: The audience is any healthcare provider in neonatology, ranging from nurses to resident trainees and even attending staff. We use this workbook for teaching cases during student and resident rounds. The editors and this group of mostly new authors are all credible and well-known authorities in the field.
Features: The 22 chapters deal primarily with disease entities in neonatology. Two chapters are devoted to resuscitation and mechanical ventilation. The casebook/scenario approach allows the authors to use questions and answers to keep readers involved. The illustrations are interspersed appropriately and are easy to understand. Because of the nature of this book, the discussions are somewhat simplistic, which can be problematic in areas where there is controversy.
Assessment: This is a wonderful and enjoyable resource for trainees in the field. It certainly has found frequent use in our training program. Because it is not a comprehensive book, many areas of the specialty are not covered. However, the scenarios are realistic and most of the common problems in neonatology are reviewed. The only comparable text is Neonatology: Case-Based Review, Brodsky and Doherty (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014), which covers more topics in a more superficial way.

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