Product Description: This manual presents a spectrum of training scenarios for first responders in the neonatal unit setting. Mock codes provide a simulated experience of emergency situations with the intention of developing the technical skill, knowledge, critical thinking and teamwork of neonatal practitioners. The philosophy underlying a mock code program is to enhance the confidence of caregivers by practicing emergency techniques in a consequence-free environment. This volume is a landmark contribution to the neonatal literature in that it brings together, for the first time, a compendium of scenarios dealing exclusively with newborns in a variety of acute and critical care situations. A pocket-sized code card summarizes the most crucial points for each mock code providing a handy quick-reference review
Product Description: Fetal Echocardiography is a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated guide to fetal heart scanning for anyone involved in obstetric ultrasound. Authored by a leading pediatric cardiologist with over 30 years of experience, it brings together all the information needed by cardiologists, obstetricians, sonographers or maternal-fetal medicine clinicians in order to obtain clear, high-quality echocardiograms and interpret them. Initial chapters provide the basic principles of echocardiography and how to obtain the standard views, giving numerous illustrations of each standard view and the possible deviations from normal. Subsequent chapters present a complete pictorial representation of almost all malformations recognised in fetal life. An overview of the likely outcome of each malformation is given, backed up by personal data involving nearly 4000 abnormal fetal hearts. Additional chapters cover Fetal Arrhythmias and Early Fetal Heart Scanning. Highly illustrated and full of practical guidance, Fetal Echocardiography is an invaluable resource for all practitioners involved in obstetric scanning.
Product Description: Comprehensive Neonatal Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach provides a comprehensive physiologic and pathophysiologic approach to neonatal nursing management. Includes a complete physiologic and embryonic foundation for each neonatal system, as well as coverage of associated risk factors, genetics, critical periods of development, nutrition, and parenting.
Detailed discussions of each organ system include assessment and management strategies, complications, and new technologies.
A collaborative approach unites medical, surgical, and psychosocial care.
Clinical decision-making rationales are supported with the latest research.
Discusses appropriate diagnostic tests and interpretation in each chapter.
Emphasizes the role of the family in the continuum of care.
Evolve website includes case studies with exam questions, resource information on neonatal nursing standards, competency-based education, and tools for family-centered care. Also includes resources from the companion handbook and new 3-D animations.
Prenatal and Postpartal Risk Factors chapter discusses health risks affecting fetuses and neonates.
Resuscitation and Stabilization of the Infant chapter includes only the most current and relevant resuscitation concepts and practices.
Genetic Influences on Newborn and Infant Health chapter covers the many roles genetics can play in neonatal health.
Explores the latest issues and trends in developmental care.
New advanced management content has been added throughout systems chapters.
Includes additional algorithms.
Addition of second color improves readability and enhances illustrations.
Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing is a comprehensive, evidence-based text for nurses and midwives caring for sick newborn babies.
Written by and for nurses, it concentrates on the common problems occurring within the neonatal intensive care unit. This user-friendly text will enable nurses to recognise, rationalise and remedy these problems using both a multi-systems and an evidence-based approach. Individual chapters include:
Professional Development • Developmentally-focused Nursing Care • Resuscitation of the Newborn • Management of Thermal Stability • Management of Respiratory Disorders • Cardiovascular Management • Brain Injury in the Preterm Infant • Haematological Problems • Pain Management • Fluid and Electrolyte Balance • Nutritional management • Neonatal Infection • Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures • Neonatal Anaesthesia • Surgical Aspects of Neonatal Intensive Care • Neonatal Transport • Family Support • Ethics and Neonatal Nursing • Medication in the Newborn • Death and Dying in the Neonatal Unit
It is essential reading for experienced nurses and midwives caring for sick newborn babies within the neonatal intensive care unit, for nurses undertaking qualifications in the specialism of neonatal nursing and for pre-registration students undertaking relevant modules or placements.
Product Description: Comprehensive and heavily illustrated, this is a unique reference for anyone involved in the diagnosis and treatment of dermatologic diseases in infants and newborns.
In addition to over 500 superb photographs of normal and abnormal skin conditions, this latest edition also includes new algorithms, new tables, and new care plans.
Simple to use text and tables for reference during daily practice.
Comprehensive information on infant skin care and toxicology.
Differential diagnosis aided by lists, text and images.
Assists with work-up and management of common and rare conditions
New Care Plan boxes help you to outline your diagnosis and treatment plan.
Differential diagnosis algorithms guide you to more effective decision making.
New illustrations and photos provide even more visual examples than before.
Product Description: Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients is the first resource available for expert opinion on the use of dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) for evaluating bone density in children and adolescents. Written by internationally recognized pediatric bone researchers and clinicians, this volume is unique in its specific attention to the myriad challenges of measuring and evaluating bone density in the pediatric patient. There is sufficient technical detail presented in this volume to enable the establishment of a pediatric DXA center or the proper utilization of DXA scan information in current clinical practice.
The volume opens with a brief introduction to general concepts relating to bone health in children and an overview of all currently available densitometry techniques used in evaluating children. Subsequent chapters focus on indications for DXA studies in children and the optimal methods for acquiring, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting these scans. Current and future research applications of DXA and other modalities for studying pediatric bone health are also discussed. An extensive appendix provides useful pediatric reference data, sample forms for use in acquiring and reporting DXA data, listings of useful and relevant pediatric bone websites, and a comprehensive bibliography. This volume, which is the first pediatric DXA reference published, optimizes the accurate and responsible use of DXA in children as a tool in the clinical management of bone fragility, and thereby paves the way for the future development of appropriate intervention and treatment programs for this population.
Product Description: The moving story of one doctor"s work with struggling newborns
Myriam Szejer speaks to newborns. For the past eleven years, in the maternity ward of a French hospital, Dr. Szejer has been conducting her practice with considerable success and acclaim. Called in by hospital staff when a baby or its parents are suffering, she uses the psychoanalytic techniques of careful listening and talking to reach failure-to-thrive and other suffering newborns and reverse their conditions.
Talking to Babies is the story of her revolutionary work. Szejer believes babies need words as much as they need nourishment to thrive. By "words," she means that infants need to be talked to about the specific situations and histories in which they are thrown. They need to hear about their mothers, their fathers, their siblings, and their caretakers. Problematic aspects of their histories (such as the death of a twin sibling or the death of a baby before them) need to be spoken about out loud—in the presence of the mothers and fathers, if at all possible. Such speech helps everyone—newborn and parents—to place themselves in the altered world created by the baby"s birth. Without this intervention, physical symptoms and illness may arise.
Talking to Babies is the first book to show how the "talking cure" can help suffering infants and their parents. Groundbreaking and brilliant, the book should find a welcome audience among parents, psychologists, doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel. In a world where medical technologies and drug interventions reign supreme, Talking to Babies offers a passionate, moving exploration of a more humane route for restoring health.
Myriam Szejer, M.D., is a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and also president of the organization La Cause des Bébés (The Interests of the Baby). She lives in Paris, France.
Product Description: This volume in The Secrets Series® is back in an exciting, fully updated 2nd Edition! Written by over 150 experts in neonatal medicine, it covers a wide range of disciplines such as cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, immunology, and nephrology. You'll also find all of the features you rely on the Secrets for-such as a question-and-answer format, bulleted lists, mnemonics, and tips from the authors. Plus, Elsevier titles with STUDENT CONSULT will help you master difficult concepts and study more efficiently in print and online! Perform rapid searches. Integrate bonus content from other disciplines. Download text to your handheld device. And a lot more. Each STUDENT CONSULT title comes with full text online, a unique image library, case studies, USMLE style questions, and online note-taking to enhance your learning experience.
A new, two-color page layout, "Key Points" boxes, and lists of useful web sites.
A smaller, more portable size.
A chapter containing the "Top 100 Secrets" in fetal and neonatal medicine
Product Description: From an internationally-known expert in child health, here is a dramatically new approach to caring for premature babies--and a wonderful new role for parents. Filled with information about the special needs of fragile newborns and illustrated with step-by-step photos.
Molecular Pathology of Gynecologic Cancer focuses on putting successful molecular strategies into practice for the treatment of gynecologic cancer. The volume begins with an explication of the editors’ hypothesis that cancer is mainly a disease of the cell cycle, based on the deregulation of the physiological process of cell reproduction. The following eleven chapters focus on specific issues in gynecologic cancers, including: a proposed model of ovarian serous carcinogenesis, molecular markers for ovarian epithelial cancer, an overview of the pathology of endometrial cancer, molecular genetic aspects of endometrial carcinoma and cervical cancer, a natural history of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) as it relates to cervical cancer, and hereditary issues in gynecologic cancers. The concluding chapter proposes and outlines a holistic approach to the treatment of female cancer patients. This new volume in Humana’s Current Clinical Oncology™ series will be necessary reading for clinicians and experimental researchers alike.
