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Field guide to the normal newborn / Gary A. Emmett ; Timothy Hiscock, acquisitions editor ; Lisa Consoli, developmental editor ; Jeff Somers, production editor ; Patricia Gast, cover designer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emmett, Gary A., author.
- Series:
- Field guide Field guide to the normal newborn
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neonatology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This handy pocket book provides an easy-to-follow roadmap to the processes and procedures essential to care of normal newborns. The ideal quick-reference for family physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, medical students, and pediatric residents, this guide focuses on the "what" and "how" of normal newborn care-with clear descriptions highlighted by tables, charts, illustrations, and algorithms. Abundant tables and charts provide vital information at a glance-from use of maternal medications in breast-feeding and newborn metabolic screening tests, to a newborn-specific formu
- Contents:
- The prenatal visit / Lisa M. Asta
- The delivery room / Mae M. Coleman
- Stabilization / Mae M. Coleman
- Admission to the well nursery / Gary A. Emmett
- Common malformations affecting transition / Mae M. Coleman
- Tachypnea and respiratory distress / Mae M. Coleman
- Hypoglycemia in the delivery room / Gary A. Emmett
- Tuberculosis / Gary A. Emmett
- Prevention of croup b streptococcal disease / Judith A. Turow
- Congenital syphilis / Gary A. Emmett
- The TORCH syndrome / Gary A. Emmett
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / Sue Jue and Nicholas Slamon
- Hepatitis and other liver inflammations / Gary A. Emmett and Sue Jue
- Varicella (chicken pox) / Gary A. Emmett
- Hyperbilirubinemia in the well nursery / Gary A. Emmett
- Physical examination / J. Lindsey Lane
- Newborn and infant growth and development charts / Gary A. Emmett
- Teratogens: prenatal maternal drugs producing congenital defects / Gary A. Emmett
- Effects of maternal drug use in newborns / Gary A. Emmett
- Breast-feeding when mothers are taking prescribed medication / Gary A. Emmett
- Maternal disease producing neonatal problems / Gary A. Emmett
- Large and small babies / Gary A. Emmett
- Newborn hearing screening / Gary A. Emmett
- Circumcision / Judith Turow and Jay Goldberg
- Delayed stooling / William B. Stephenson
- Delayed urine output / William B. Stephenson
- Discharge / Judith Turow
- Newborn metabolic screening / Gary A. Emmett
- Practitioner responsibilities after hospital discharge / Gary A. Emmett
- First outpatient visit / Gary A. Emmett
- Immunizations / Gary A. Emmett
- Fever in the newborn / Gary A. Emmett
- Bilirubin follow-up after discharge from the well baby nursery / Gary A. Emmett
- Feeding and feeding problems / John Olsson
- Breathing difficulties / Gary A. Emmett
- Urination and defecation / Gary A. Emmett
- Dermatology / Linda Meloy
- High-risk newborn follow-up / William McNett
- Talking to parents.
- High-risk newborn follow-up / William McNett
- Talking to parents / Budd N. Shenkin.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4511-6659-1
- OCLC:
- 880453678
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