S. Sinha – Essential Neonatal Medicine (5th edition, 2012)

Автор: S. Sinha
Название книги: Essential Neonatal Medicine (5th edition)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 403
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Modern neonatology is still a relatively new specialty: the first positive pressure ventilation for respiratory distress syndrome was practiced in the 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s the focus was on survival of increasingly preterm infants and exogenous surfactant therapy began. The first edition of this book was published 25 years ago, at a time of great excitement about the new therapeutic options available. In the 1990s survival began to be the norm and increasingly neonatologists started to consider the evidence for therapies: antenatal steroids became a standard of care and the first concerns were expressed about the effect of post natal steroids on the developing brain. The fifth edition of this book is published in a new era where survival of even the most preterm infants has come to be expected, and the focus now is on the quality of care and achieving the best long term outcomes with the least invasive therapy. The
importance of family-centred developmental care and supporting breastfeeding and attachment are now regarded as equally important standards of care. This book is also developing and maturing: we have tried to present complex information in a visually appealing format and we now have full colour diagrams and photographs. The authors offer the benefit of their clinical expertise with a series of clinical tips throughout the text and there are links to our sister title, Nursing the Neonate. Self-assessment questions for each chapter are available online. We have tried to present the latest evidence and therapies and addressed modern controversies and changes in practice. The result is a comprehensive text that provides an international insight into the current practice of neonatal care in a user-friendly format. We believe this book offers an excellent introduction to state-of-the-art neonatal medicine for trainee doctors, nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We would also like to pay tribute to two of the original authors of the first edition, Malcolm Levene and David Tudehope who have recently retired and handed over the baton of Essential Neonatal Medicine to a new generation of neonatologists.