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Klaus and Fanaroff's Care of the High-Risk Neonate

  • Joined: May 18, 2024
  • Articles: 26

Selected Procedures in Neonatology

Introduction Procedural skills are an important component of care in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Procedures have inherent risks and can be the source of significant morbidity and mortality if the proper techniques are not applied. Historically, the acquisition…

Normal Values

Chemistry Values Table C-1 Serum Magnesium, Calcium, Phosphate, and Alkaline Phosphatase in the First Month of Life (Mean ± SD) Modified from Noone D, Kieran E, Molloy EJ. Serum magnesium in the first week of life in extremely low birth…

Ethical Issues

The mortality rate of imperiled newborns has decreased since the inception of neonatology as a specialty. Neonatologists are now able to save smaller and sicker infants, yet this decrease in mortality has not seen a concomitant decrease in severe morbidity…

The Outcome of Neonatal Intensive Care

Technical advances and aggressive improvements in perinatal care have been primarily responsible for the improved survival of high-risk neonates ( Fig. 19.1 , Tables 19.1 and 19.2 ) Despite marked improvements in survival, there has been minimal progress in decreasing…

Neonatal Imaging

Imaging provides anatomic and functional information critical to the care of the high-risk neonate. An expanding selection of imaging tools offers safe and timely diagnostic procedures for infants both before and after birth. Advances such as fetal magnetic resonance imaging…

Neonatal Brain Disorders

Brain Development in the Fetus and the Newborn Maturation of the brain is defined through descriptions of sequential and overlapping developmental processes, beginning with conception and involving continual interactions of the gene environment. Beginning during gestation and following trimester-specific stages…