Primary Care of the Newborn , 4th Edition

Description

Here's a comprehensive, pocket-sized resource for the care of full-term newborns. It provides guidance on well-baby development, monitoring the newborn, non-acute disease management, patient education, and more. Concise and convenient, this is the perfect reference for anyone who cares for babies in the first hours of life.

Key Features

• Presents cutting-edge chapters on prenatal diagnosis, screening, and genetics.
  
• Speeds information gathering with extensive charts and tables, procedures, laboratory observations and other essential data collected in appendices.
  
• Expedites access to vital information with a bulleted outline format.
  
• Offers relevant tables on cultural and religious considerations affecting care of the newborn.

New to this Edition

• Enhances favorite figures to make visual information easier access.
• Adds Fast Facts, Pearls and Pitfalls and expert opinions to give you authority in a flash.

Readership

Pediatricians

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Henry M. Seidel, MD, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Beryl J. Rosenstein, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; Ambadas Pathak, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Director, Newborn Nurseries, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD and Wendell H. McKay, MD