Neonatal Perinatal Medicine

Innovations in technology and new therapies have changed the face of medicine in the last few decades. These include advances in fetal diagnosis (preimplantation genetics, chorionic villous sampling and amniocentesis), drugs that have been developed to treat unique conditions in neonates such as respiratory distress syndrome (surfactant) and pulmonary hypertension (inhaled nitric oxide), as well as technological advances and interventions resulting in diagnostic (ultrasounds and MRI) and therapeutic interventions (intrauterine transfusion to ECMO). Research in fertility treatments has resulted in test tube babies and cloned animals, and that has also fostered technological advances in diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. The primary purpose of Innovations in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine is to highlight these innovations in technology and therapy that have not only changed the way doctors deliver care to fetus and neonate but also reduced neonatal mortality thereby saving millions of lives in the process. These issues are addressed by the authors who are experts in their respective fields. the book will be valuable not only to healthcare providers but also to educators and policy makers.

The ONLY review book for the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine board exam This comprehensive review for the Neonatal-Perinatel Medicine board exam includes everything test takers need for exam success: thorough concept reviews, full-color illustrations, highlighted key points, and case-based Q&A. The content is weighted to match that of the exam, so students know they are spending just the right amount of time on each topic. The authors of the book are uniquely qualified to create such as book as they currently run exam review workshops and have many years of experience preparing residents and physicians for the examination. This is a particularly valuable entry into the McGraw-Hill Medical test prep line as neonatology is the most popular pediatric subspecialty. Includes 4-color insert of neontatel dermatology and infectious disease illustrations Each chapter includes clinical vignettes with board-style Q&A

The quintessential reference for neonatal-perinatal medicine.

From the files of NeoReviews comes this collection of Perinatal Profiles, chosen to provide a glimpse into the lives of the "movers and shakers" in neonatal/perinatal medicine ... ... Many of the profiles in this collection were written by the students of these pioneers who have gone on to become key NPM innovators themselves. They provide rare insight into the personalities of their mentors and the development of NPM. You'll meet such luminaries as: Alex Minkowski, MD, whose life's work, including a conference on whether assisted ventilation did more harm than good, led French President Jacques Chirac in 2004 to call him "one of the consciences of the 20th century." Martin Couney, MD, who in 1896 began 40 years of organizing preterm baby "child hatchery" sideshows to showcase the marvels of incubator technology at expositions, state fairs, traveling circuses--even Coney Island--showing the public that even the most severely preterm infants had a chance for survival. Elizabeth Blackwell, Marie Putnam Jacobi, Elizabeth Garret, and Madeleine Brès, the first female physicians caring for women and children at the end of the 19th century. All struggled for admission to medical school yet eventually managed to pierce the armor of sex bias. Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis, the Hungarian pioneer of antisepsis who first demonstrated that most childbed fever cases could be prevented--one of the most important discoveries of 19th-century medicine--yet was ridiculed and released in disgrace from his Viennese hospital and medical school faculty posts. Cathy Cropley, the Seattle nurse who wove nurses into the fabric of neonatal resuscitation as team members and instructors, insisting that skill take precedence over title. This collection of 26 key columns was compiled and edited by NeoReviews Editor-in-Chief Alistair G.S. Philip, MD, FRCPE, FAAP, in honor of the 15th anniversary of NeoReviews, the American Academy of Pediatrics' online journal of neonatology, available at http: //www.neoreviews.org.

The Year Book of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in neontatology and perinatology, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Dr. Avroy Fanaroff, Emeritus Professor as Case Western Reserve University, is a key opinion leader who has been a driving force in the field for many years. He authors many commentaries himself and has assembled top experts to select the most important journal articles and write commentaries that evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to patient care. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! This annual covers all aspects of care from the fetus, postnatal growth, labor and delivery, infectious diseases, respiratory disorders, cardiovascular health, and gastrointestinal health to name a few. The Year Book of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine publishes annually in November.

The Year Book of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in perinatology, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to the clinical management of your patients. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! Chapters include The Fetus; Genetatics and Teratology; Respiratory Disorders; Infectious Diseases and Immunology; Cardiovascular System; Gastrointestinal Health and Nutrition; and Hematology, to name a few.