Neonatology Questions and Controversies: The Newborn Lung

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 The Newborn Lung: 

• Provides a clear management strategy for reducing lung damage and long-term sequelae in extremely premature infants, 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, with an emphasis on those areas where there have been major new developments in recent years. 
• Includes new chapters on Perinatal Nutrition and the Lung; Caffeine: Respiratory Stimulant or Magic Bullet?; Lung Ultrasound and Electrical Impedance Tomography; New Lung Imaging Techniques: CT, MRI and Other Modalities; Alveolar Homeostasis and Chronic Lung Disease; and Fetal Intervention in Congenital Malformations of the Respiratory System.  
• 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 Introduction and Historical Aspects

2 Physiologic Principles

3 Control of Ventilation

4 Ethical Issues in Assisted Ventilation of the Neonate

5 Evidence-Based Respiratory Care

6 Quality and Safety in Respiratory Care

7 Medical and Legal Aspects of Respiratory Care

8 Physical Examination

9 Imaging: Radiography, Lung Ultrasound, and Other Imaging Modalities

10 Blood Gases: Technical Aspects and Interpretation

11 Non-invasive Monitoring of Gas Exchange

12 Pulmonary Function and Graphics

13 Airway Evaluation: Bronchoscopy, Laryngoscopy, and Tracheal Aspirates

14 Cardiovascular Assessment

15 Overview of Assisted Ventilation

16 Oxygen Therapy

17 Non-invasive Respiratory Support

18 Basic Modes of Synchronized Ventilation

19 Principles of Lung-Protective Ventilation

20 Tidal Volume-Targeted Ventilation

21 Special Techniques of Respiratory Support

22 High-Frequency Ventilation

23 Mechanical Ventilation: Disease-Specific Strategies

24 Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

25 Description of Available Devices

26 Delivery Room Stabilization, and Respiratory Support

27 Respiratory Care of the Newborn

28 Nursing Care

29 Nutritional Support

30 Complications of Respiratory Support

31 Pharmacologic Therapies I: Surfactant Therapy

32 Pharmacologic Therapies II: Inhaled Nitric Oxide

33 Pharmacologic Therapies III: Cardiovascular Therapy and Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn

34 Pharmacologic Therapies IV: Other Medications

35 Management of the Infant with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

36 Medical and Surgical Interventions for Respiratory Distress and Airway Management

37 Intraoperative Management of the Neonate

38 Neonatal Respiratory Care in Resource-Limited Countries

39 Transport of the Ventilated Infant

40 Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

41 Discharge and Transition to Home Care

42 Neurologic Effects of Respiratory Support

43 Pulmonary and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Following Ventilation