Necrotizing Enterocolitis An Issue Of Clinics In Perinatology

With collaboration of Dr. Lucky Jain, Consulting Editor, Dr. Caplan has assembled articles devoted to the most current clinical advances in necrotizing enterocolitis. He has invited expert authors from top institutions to contribute timely reviews on the following topics: Biomarker Discovery: New markers that improve early diagnostic capability; Probiotics: State of the art; NEC Pathophysiology: How microbiome data alters our understanding; Effect of Human Milk on NEC; Influence of Growth Factors on the Development of NEC; Can Fish Oil Reduce the Incidence of NEC by Altering the Inflammatory Response; Oral Mother’s Milk: State of the art and influence on NEC; Does Surgical Management Alter the Outcome of NEC; Epidemiology of NEC: New considerations and influence of PRBC transfusions and anemia; Role of Abdominal Ultrasound in Diagnosis of NEC; and Modifiable Risk Factors in NEC: 2018. Readers will come away with the scientific and medical information they need to make clinical decisions to improve patient outcomes.

This important topic in perinatology is getting its own issue for the first time. The Guest Editors have taken care to provide a full clinical overview in this issue. Articles are devoted to Feeding Practices and NEC; Prebiotics, Probiotics and Postbiotics; Clinical Presentations of NEC; Short Gut Syndrome in the NICU; NEC in Full-term Neonates; Lactoferrin and NEC; Altered Gut Microbiome and NEC; Inflammatory Signaling in NEC; Newer Monitoring Techniques (such as Near-Infrared Spectroscopy) to Determine the Risk of NEC; Surgical Treatment of NEC; Biomarkers of NEC; Intestinal Transplantation.

With collaboration of Dr. Lucky Jain, Consulting Editor, Dr. Caplan has assembled articles devoted to the most current clinical advances in necrotizing enterocolitis. He has invited expert authors from top institutions to contribute timely reviews on the following topics: Biomarker Discovery: New markers that improve early diagnostic capability; Probiotics: State of the art; NEC Pathophysiology: How microbiome data alters our understanding; Effect of Human Milk on NEC; Influence of Growth Factors on the Development of NEC; Can Fish Oil Reduce the Incidence of NEC by Altering the Inflammatory Response; Oral Mother's Milk: State of the art and influence on NEC; Does Surgical Management Alter the Outcome of NEC; Epidemiology of NEC: New considerations and influence of PRBC transfusions and anemia; Role of Abdominal Ultrasound in Diagnosis of NEC; and Modifiable Risk Factors in NEC: 2018. Readers will come away with the scientific and medical information they need to make clinical decisions to improve patient outcomes.

The Guest Editors have collaborated on a state-of-the-art presentation of current clinical reviews on Quality in Neonatal Care. Top experts have prepared articles in the following areas: Standardizing Practices: How and why to standardize, using checklists, measuring variation; Health Informatics and Patient Safety; Using Statistical Process Control to Drive Improvement in Neonatal Care; Improving Value in Neonatal Intensive Care; Culture and Context in Quality of Care: Improving Teamwork and Resilience; Has Quality Improvement Improved Neonatal Outcomes; National Quality Measures in Perinatal Care; Perinatal and Obstetric Quality Initiatives; Family Involvement in Quality Improvement; Perinatal Quality Improvement: A Global Perspective; Delivery Room Care / Golden Hour; Respiratory Care and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia; Reducing Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis; Alarm Safety and Alarm Fatigue; and Patient Safety: Reducing Unplanned Extubations. Readers will come away with the clinical information they need improve quality in the NICU.

This important topic in perinatology is getting its own issue for the first time. The Guest Editors have taken care to provide a full clinical overview in this issue. Articles are devoted to Feeding Practices and NEC; Prebiotics, Probiotics and Postbiotics; Clinical Presentations of NEC; Short Gut Syndrome in the NICU; NEC in Full-term Neonates; Lactoferrin and NEC; Altered Gut Microbiome and NEC; Inflammatory Signaling in NEC; Newer Monitoring Techniques (such as Near-Infrared Spectroscopy) to Determine the Risk of NEC; Surgical Treatment of NEC; Biomarkers of NEC; Intestinal Transplantation.

In this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest editors Drs. Heather C. Kaplan and Munish Gupta bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Quality Improvement. In recent years, the growing use of quality improvement (QI) methods to apply evidence-based practices to clinical care has resulted in a greater penetration of QI methods in neonatal intensive care units across the world and a more sophisticated appreciation of how best to use them. This issue provides important updates in these areas as well as looks at the future of QI in perinatology. Contains 15 practice-oriented topics including frameworks for quality improvement: Lean Six Sigma and the model for improvement in perinatology; sustaining improvement in perinatology; recent progress in global health quality improvement in perinatology; measuring equity for quality improvement in perinatology; pursuing equity for all mothers and newborns through population health: the role of perinatal quality collaboratives; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on quality improvement in perinatology, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

In this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest editors Joseph B. Cantey and Andi Shane bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Perinatal and Neonatal Infections. Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on Perinatal and Neonatal Infections, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.

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