Blood Component Therapy for the Neonate
89 Blood Component Therapy for the Neonate Ross M. Fasano, Mariam Said and Naomi L.C. Luban Special Considerations for Transfusion Therapy in the Neonate Neonates constitute one of the most…
Obstetric Management of Prematurity
20 Obstetric Management of Prematurity Kara Beth Markham and Avroy A. Fanaroff Preterm birth is defined as a delivery that occurs at 20 weeks’ gestation or later but prior to…
Physical Examination of the Newborn
29 Physical Examination of the Newborn Tom Lissauer Immediately after a baby is born, all parents want to know, “Is my baby all right?” A quick initial physical examination of…
Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis
94 Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis Michael Caplan Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a common and devastating gastrointestinal emergency that primarily afflicts premature infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) worldwide. Despite…
Role of Imaging in Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of High-Risk Neonates
69 Role of Imaging in Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of High-Risk Neonates Susan R. Hintz Neonatologists, neurologists, and other providers who care for high-risk, very premature infants in the neonatal intensive care…
Hypotonia and Neuromuscular Disease in the Neonate
63 Hypotonia and Neuromuscular Disease in the Neonate Nancy Bass, Timothy E. Lotze and Geoffrey Miller Clinicians who care for newborns are often required to consider the possibility that a…
Cardiac Embryology
79 Cardiac Embryology Michiko Watanabe and Jamie Wikenheiser The care of children with heart disease has increasingly become a neonatal specialty. Fetal diagnosis of congenital heart defects (CHDs) is now…
Early Childhood Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of High-Risk Neonates
68 Early Childhood Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of High-Risk Neonates Deanne E. Wilson-Costello and Allison H. Payne Advances in obstetric and neonatal care have been responsible for the improved survival of high-risk…
Overview and Initial Management of Delivery Room Resuscitation
32 Overview and Initial Management of Delivery Room Resuscitation Jay P. Goldsmith The transition from fetus to neonate represents a series of rapid and dramatic physiologic changes during which the…
Pulmonary Vascular Development
80 Pulmonary Vascular Development Robin H. Steinhorn Normal development of pulmonary vascular structure and function through prenatal and early postnatal life prepares the lung to perform its basic physiologic function…
