Neonatology Questions and Controversies: Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Description:


Dr. Richard Polin’s Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the toughest challenges facing physicians and care providers in clinical practice, offering trustworthy guidance on up-to-date diagnostic and treatment options in the field. In each volume, renowned experts address the clinical problems of greatest concern to today’s practitioners, helping you handle difficult practice issues and provide optimal, evidence-based care to every patient.

Features:

The thoroughly updated, full-color, 4th Edition of Gastroenterology and Nutrition:

• Provides in-depth clinical overviews of both common and rare neonatal GI and nutritional disorders, offering guidance based on the most up-to-date understanding of underlying pathophysiology.
• Places emphasis on controversial areas that can entail different approaches.
• Features the most current clinical information throughout, including the dynamic composition of human milk for precision nutrition, how the developmental biology of the GI tract relates to optimizing nutrition for the most vulnerable infants, interactions of the gut with the brain and other organs, associations between the GI tract and nutritional health and disease with individual nutrients, microbes, and metabolites, and more.
• Covers rapidly emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and multiomics for predictive analytics, as well as in augmenting our understanding of mechanisms of pathophysiology.
• Discusses how diagnoses such as sepsis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and central nervous system disorders relate to a breakdown of homeostasis in the intestinal tract.
• Utilizes a consistent chapter organization to help you find information quickly and easily, and contains numerous charts, graphs, radiographic images, and photographs throughout.
• Offers the most authoritative advice available from world-class neonatologists who share their knowledge of new trends and developments in neonatal care.
• An digital version is included with purchase. The digital allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Purchase each volume individually, or get the entire 7-volume Neonatology Questions and Controversies set, which includes online access that allows you to search across all titles!

• Gastroenterology and Nutrition
• Hematology and Transfusion Medicine
• Neonatal Hemodynamics
• Infectious Disease, Immunology, and Pharmacology
• Renal, Fluid, and Electrolyte Disorders
• Neurology
• The Newborn Lung

Table Of Contents:

1 Maturation of Motor Function: Clinical Implications
2 Intestinal Mucosal Immunity
3 Microbiome and Multiomics of the Developing Intestine: Nutritional and Environmental Perturbations
4 The Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis
5 Trophic Factors in the Neonatal Gastrointestinal Tract
6 The Liver and Cholestasis (Treatment and Prevention)
7 Monitoring of Feeding Tolerance in Preterm Infants
8 Human Milk Bioactives and Roles in the GI Tract
9 Donor Milk Nutrition for the Preterm Infant: Current Standards, Uses, and Transitions
10 Different Forms of Intestinal Injury: Moving Beyond NEC
11 Science-Based Strategies for Providing Nutrition for High-Risk Neonates
12 International Perspective: Management of Nutrition in Preterm Infants in Settings With Limited Resources
13 The Future of Neonatal Nutrition: Further Research and Investment, New Products
14 GI Surgical Conditions in the NICU
15 Multiomic-Based Therapeutics: The Future
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