Amazon.com description: Product Description: The circulatory system is the focus of the first volume in the series. This volume reviews essential topics concerned with fetal and neonatal cardiovascular function. The early chapters provide an overview of the physiological mechanisms that control the circulation in both the fetus and the neonate and the transitional processes that take place at birth. The book then considers pathophysiological conditions and related clinical issues. Care and management of the newborn is discussed, along with appropriate approaches to treatment and the new technologies currently available for monitoring cardiovascular parameters in the fetus and the neonate.