Main description:

The fully-updated sixth edition of this popular and well-established textbook offers nurses, medical students, doctors and other health professionals a method of learning neonatology. Explains the latest method of care where a gentle approach is used and the nurse is pivotal. Provides the most recent information on infection and notes the reduction of HIV transmission from mother to child. Prolonged breast-feeding is encouraged and several methods of breast milk pasteurisation are described. Recommends the latest approach to care of premature infants. Provides information on less common disorders and contains updated information on recent gene discoveries, particularly in musculoskeletal and skin disorders.

Contents:

Perinatal terminology; Intrauterine growth and gestational age; The physical examination; Nursery care; Breast-feeding; Artificial feeding; Disorders of maturation, growth and development; Infection; Jaundice; Congenital abnormalities; Neurological disord