Here's a comprehensive, pocket-sized resource for the care of full-term newborns. It provides guidance on well-baby development, monitoring the newborn, non-acute disease management, patient education, and more. Concise and convenient, this is the perfect reference for anyone who cares for babies in the first hours of life.Presents cutting-edge chapters on prenatal diagnosis, screening, and genetics. Speeds information gathering with extensive charts and tables, procedures, laboratory observations and other essential data collected in appendices. Expedites access to vital information with a bulleted outline format. Offers relevant tables on cultural and religious considerations affecting care of the newborn.Enhances favorite figures to make visual information easier access.Adds Fast Facts, Pearls and Pitfalls and expert opinions to give you authority in a flash.

Product Description: This is a Pageburst digital textbook; Offering a multidisciplinary approach in an accessible outline format, this practical handbook covers all aspects of care for the full-term, well newborn. Written and reviewed by both physicians and nurses, this new edition presents explanations of the events surrounding delivery, the processes necessary to identify newborns that deviate from the norm, the immediate interventions and care required in these situations, and routine care considerations frequently encountered in caring for these infants...read more

Product Description: In this work on neonatology, each chapter focuses on aetiology, clinical description, differential diagnosis and the treatments available.