Textbook of Neonatology

SECTION ONE ORGANISATION and DELIVERY of NEONATAL CARE: Epidemiology. Organisation, In/Ex Utero Transfer, Trends. Standards & Audit Inc CESDI, BAPM. Costs. Care of the Family + Staff. Handling Death. Outcome. Specific Problems in Developing Countries. SECTION TWO PRENATAL LIFE: Basic Embryology. Basic Genetics. Obstetrics I: For the Neonatologist. Obstetrics II: Maternal Conditions. Antenatal Diagnosis, Screening, Fetal Rx. Information from the Placenta. SECTION THREE CARE AROUND the TIME of BIRTH: Delivery Room Care. First Hour Care. SECTION FOUR GENERAL NEONATAL CARE: Examination. Temperature Control. Feeding I Nutrition, Gut Phjysiol: Ii. Full Term, Iii. LBW. TPN. Intensive Care Monitoring. Well Term. Well Small. IDM. Twins. Pharmacokinetics. Analgesia. Infant of Drug Addicted Mothers. SECTION FIVE DISORDERS of the NEWBORN: Pulmonary Disease: Physiology, Acute Disease, Persistent Fetal Circulation, Chronic Disease, Apneoa, Malformations, Airway Problems. Cardiovascular Disease. Gastroenterology: Jaundice, Liver, Gastrointestinal/NEC, Congenital & Surgery. Haematology: Coagulation, Anaemia & Haemolytic, Polycythaemia, Use of Blood Products. Hydrops. Inherited Genetic Disease. Metabolic Disease: Glucose, Endocrine, Inborn Errors, Metabolic Bone Disease. Kidney & Urinary Tract: Fluid Balance, Renal, Neonatal Urology. Skin Disorders. Malignant Disease. Ophthalmology. Orthopaedics. Infection: Immunology, Infectious Disease. Neurology: Assessment of the CNS, Seizures, Haemorrhage at Term, Hypoxic Ischaemic Injury, Preterm Brain Injury, Hereditary CNS Disease, Muscle Disease, CNS Malfs. Iatrogenic Conditions in the Newborn. SECTION SIX PATHOLOGY, RADIOLOGY 7 BIOCHEMISTRY: the Postmortem Examination. The Biochemistry Laboratory. Neonatal Imaging. SECTION SEVEN ETHICS & The LAW: Ethics. The Law & The Neonate. Frequent Medico-Legal Problems. SECTION EIGHT PRACTICAL PROCEDURES: Procesures. SECTION NINE PHARMACOPEIA SECTION TEN APPENDICES: Haematological Values. EEG. Blood Pressure Values. Birthweight Centiles. Biochemical Values. Endotracheal Tube Lengths. Umbilical Catheter Lengths. CSF Values. Urine. Haemoglobin-Oxygen Saturation Curve. Siggard Anderson Nomogram. Shunt Equations. Squad Calls.