The Newborn Child

by PeterG.B.JohnstonMBFRCPFRCPCH (Author), KristieFlood (Author), KarenSpinks (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  This is the ninth edition of a well-established, introductory text providing in-depth information on the care of the newborn, both normal and abnormal, full-term and pre-term, from minor to major abnormalities and illnesses. It provides an introduction to neonatology, concentrating on common conditions,for all health professionals concerned with care of the newborn.The concise, readable text facilitates the comprehension of content. The content is firmly evidence-based to ensure best practices. Key points listed throughout the text assist in learning and comprehension. Color photos illustrate important clinical conditions. Fully referenced to provide a current evidence base. Updated content reflects recent guidelines, developments in intensive care, pharmacology, and hepatitis C. A discussion of current issues includes vitamin K administration. Additional information is provided on the care of normal babies, including the parents' perspective. It provides an increased emphasis on the nursing/midwifery aspects.

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  Paperback
  1994

  $17.57

  This book aims to supplement the information about the care of the newborn infant available in textbooks of midwifery for student midwives, and to introduce the subject to students of health visiting and medicine and junior doctors commencing work in neonatal units. This edition has been extensively reorganized in the hope of reflecting the needs of those caring for all babies in a district hospital setting. It emphasizes major topics, such as hypoglycaemia and respiratory distress syndrome. Greater emphasis has been placed on topics relating to the increasing ethnic minority groups in Britain today, the problem of HIV infection and drug abusing mothers, but the needs of largely healthy neonates, who form the majority, remain the focus of the book. A pharmacopoeia has been added to assist in the safe prescribing of drugs to neonates. A new short chapter on helping the parents aims to prepare the reader to understand the emotional reactions of family members to the birth of a malformed or ill infant, or to the death of a newborn baby.

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $38.26

  This is the ninth edition of a well-established, introductory text providing in-depth information on the care of the newborn, both normal and abnormal, full-term and pre-term, from minor to major abnormalities and illnesses. It provides an introduction to neonatology, concentrating on common conditions,for all health professionals concerned with care of the newborn.The concise, readable text facilitates the comprehension of content. The content is firmly evidence-based to ensure best practices. Key points listed throughout the text assist in learning and comprehension. Color photos illustrate important clinical conditions. Fully referenced to provide a current evidence base. Updated content reflects recent guidelines, developments in intensive care, pharmacology, and hepatitis C. A discussion of current issues includes vitamin K administration. Additional information is provided on the care of normal babies, including the parents' perspective. It provides an increased emphasis on the nursing/midwifery aspects.