About Book
I am thrilled to existing the eighth version of Neonatology. The first version used to be posted in 1988 and was once started out in the course of my neonatology fellowship at University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington.
The origins of the guide have been pretty easy and started out as a collection of handouts designed to assist college students and residents make it via their neonatal intensive care unit rotation. Because of a difficult twin being pregnant all through my fellowship, I had to lengthen my coaching and whole my required neonatology fellowship time at Johns Hopkins University.
While the roots of this guide can be traced lower back to the University of Kentucky in the course of my fellowship with Dr. Doug Cunningham, it was once eventually achieved whilst I was once a fellow at Johns Hopkins University and working at the newly hooked up Bayview campus in Baltimore beneath Dr. Fabien Eyal.
This has made the e book incredibly special due to the fact it used to be firstly written from the standpoint of a trainee in two extraordinary neonatology programs. This easy fact, alongside with the addition of different authors from round the United States and the world, has delivered collectively a various crew of contributors. I hope you will agree that this strategy offers a complete overview of the discipline of neonatology.
Dr. Doug Cunningham has labored as partner editor on this guide for the reason that its inception 7 versions ago. For this, our eighth edition, he has surpassed the baton to Dr. Fayez Bany-Mohammed from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. Dr. Mohammed has been concerned with the guide for the reason that the fifth version and has set up himself as one of our most splendid authors.
He has in the past contributed more than one chapters with a concise writing fashion that made him a ideal in shape to fill Dr. Cunningham’s shoes. I additionally prefer to publicly categorical my thanks to Dr. Cunningham. If it was once no longer for his mentorship, this manual would no longer be in existence. He gave me exceptional permission to strengthen the earliest variations of the guide at some point of my devoted fellowship lookup time.
In a most becoming tribute to his contributions to the subject of neonatology and his predominant longstanding contributions to this manual, we have committed this version to Dr. Doug Cunningham.
In this eighth edition, the desk of contents used to be reformatted to make it extra person pleasant and with any luck greater logical. Section I consists of critical prenatal and postnatal subjects such as “Fetal Assessment,” “Obstetric Anesthesia and the Neonate,” “Resuscitation of the Newborn,” and “Neonatal Transport.”
Section II encompasses simple evaluation and administration of a new child with a new chapter addressing “The Golden Hour.” Section III consists of superior administration matters such as the evolving areas of complementary and integrative cures and two new chapters: “Genetic and Genomic Testing in the Newborn Period” and “Neonatal Palliative Care.”
Section IV consists of all the primary and superior bedside tactics usually used in neonatology. We have introduced an complete new area on point-of-care ultrasound in Chapter forty four We have additionally protected point-of-care ultrasound records on pertinent procedures.
One of the most famous sections of the book, the “On-Call Problems” section, now consists of a complete of 35 frequent neonatal issues with 1 new hassle added: “Abdominal Distension.” Section VI, “Diseases and Disorders,” covers all the frequent and a few now not so common, however clinically important, illnesses of the neonate.
We have brought a new subsection on “Infectious Diseases” to embody the developing literature on infectious ailments that may additionally be current in a neonate. Two new chapters have been brought in this part addressing dengue infection and Zika virus. The part on neonatal pharmacology consists of good sized updates of medicinal drugs normally used in neonates.
Since there are exceptionally few medicines formally authorized for use in neonates, the remedy records has been cautiously curated by means of our superb crew of neonatal PharmDs. We trust it to be the most complete listing of medicines located in a guide such as ours.
The “Effects of Drugs and Substances on Lactation and Infants” chapter has been revised to encompass the most frequent medicinal drugs that may be used by means of a breast-feeding mother. The appendices encompass different beneficial reference tables and information. A hallmark of our e book has been noting areas that are “controversial,” and this version continues that tradition.
Another thrilling and evolving element of this guide is its international reach. As our readership has grown worldwide, we have introduced to our global editorial board. These board contributors are from many countries: Poland, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Costa Rica, Saudi Arabia, Peru, French Polynesia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Finland, India, Israel, Bahamas, Canada, and Australia.
These physicians, alongside with our many global contributors, assist to make the guide a beneficial reference worldwide. The guide has been formerly translated into 12 exclusive languages over the previous 25 years. These translations encompass Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Chinese (short and lengthy form), Turkish, Greek, Yugoslavian (now Serbian), Italian, Hungarian, and Korean.
I would like to in my view thank Dr. Fabien Eyal, my senior companion editor and my fellowship mentor at Johns Hopkins, and Dr. Fayez Bany-Mohammed, my accomplice editor, for assigning, composing, and reviewing many sections of the guide and for their willing-ness to continually be accessible for questions.
I additionally choose to thank my part editors. Dr. Brooke Vergales, the process area editor, spearheaded the system chapter updates. I had three remarkable PharmDs—Pui-Man (Julia) Ho, Kristin Bohannon, and Valerie Nolt—who labored tirelessly to replace the pharmacology and breast-feeding sections, alongside with their new medicinal drug tables, which will decorate numerous chapters. In addition to their long-term dedication to this manual, the partner editors have introduced collectively exquisite authors from all over the United States and the global community.
I additionally categorical grasp to Louise Bierig, Andrew Moyer, and the editorial and pro-duction body of workers at McGraw-Hill and their colleagues overseas (especially Tania Andrabi) for their sizeable help all through the 2-year ride to whole this new edition.
A specific thanks to my loving husband Lenny, who helped me notably regarding things of editorial content, and my gorgeous adolescents Patrick, Andrew, Leonard, and Michael (the PALM team), who helped troubleshoot pc problems and tolerated many sacrifices whilst I labored on this and many preceding variants of the e book over the previous 30 years. I owe a debt of gratitude to all of my mother’s caregivers (Edie Brewer, Lynn Finney, Skylar Finney, Meryle Voytilla, Calia Broaddus, Anick Biatchon, Veronica Messina, Lillian Colon, and Maria Romero) who took outstanding care of my tremendous aged mother, Nancy Murray Lacy, so I may want to have the time to work on this version and to Maisie, our emotional assist Bearded Collie, who furnished me with humor and love.
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