Product Description: Provide the best care possible with expert insight and clinically relevant coverage of the physiologic changes that occur throughout all major periods of the perinatal experience - prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal. This text provides a solid foundation for assessment and therapeutic interventions, featuring an emphasis on the evolving interrelationships between mother, fetus, and neonate and adaptations of preterm and term infants to the extrauterine environment...read more

This edition is the definitive source on normal and abnormal physiology of the fetus and neonate. Includes 35 new chapters, and a new section on special sensory systems. Written by authorities from all major North American neonatology centers.