Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: General considerations. Newborn survival in a global context
  • The scope and organization of perinatal services: global comparisons and challenges
  • Newborn intensive care unit design: scientific and practical considerations
  • Data collection systems for service evaluation and research
  • Quality assessment and improvement
  • Inter-hospital transport
  • Perinatal medical ethics, decision-making, and legal principles
  • Care of the family, palliative care, brain death, and organ donation
  • Discharge planning, follow-up care, and outcome evaluation
  • Part 2: The fetal patient. Prenatal diagnosis and management in the molecular age--indications, procedures, and laboratory techniques
  • Multiple gestation
  • Placental physiology, the in utero environment, and antenatal determinants of disease
  • The impact of maternal illness and therapy on the fetus and neonate
  • The impact of prenatal exposure to nonnarcotic drugs: maternal, fetal, neonatal, and long-term outcomes
  • Part 3: Care around birth. Transition and stabilization
  • Delivery room management
  • Physical assessment and classification
  • Care of the normal newborn
  • Part 4: The newborn infant. Fluid and electrolyte management
  • Nutrition
  • Radiology
  • Health care-associated infections
  • Pharmacology
  • Anesthesia and analgesia
  • The preterm infant
  • The small-for-gestational age infant and IUGR
  • Control of breathing: maturation and associated clinical disorders
  • Acute pulmonary disorders
  • Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
  • Surgical management of the airway and lungs
  • Hemodynamics
  • Structural cardiac disease and cardiomyopathies
  • Postoperative management and care of the cardiac surgical patient
  • Disorders of heart rhythm
  • Development of structure and function of the gastrointestinal tract
  • Disorders of the gastrointestinal tract
  • Hepatobiliary disorders
  • Renal disease
  • Structural abnormalities of the genitourinary tract
  • Endocrine disorders
  • Homeostasis of carbohydrate and other fuels
  • Parent information sheet
  • Red blood cells and their disorders
  • White blood cells and their disorders
  • Platelets and disorders of coagulation
  • Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
  • Congenital infections
  • Evaluation and management of infection in the newborn
  • Immunology
  • Brain injury at term
  • Brain development and injury in preterm infants
  • Neonatal seizures
  • Neuromuscular disorders
  • Neurosurgery
  • Neonatal abstinence syndrome
  • Inherited metabolic disorders
  • Genetics and genomics
  • Congenital anomalies and genetic disease
  • Eye disorders
  • Oncology
  • Orthopedics
  • Dermatology.