Practical Neonatal Care

Lalitha Krishnan

ISBN: 9788125021773 | Year: 2018 | eBook | Pages: 0 | Language : English

Book Size: 195 x 260 mm | Territorial Rights: World

Price: 450.00

About the Book

This manual is meant for nursing students, PG students and practising neonatologists. It is a must-buy for all maternity/nursing homes and hospitals. The book gives valuable step by step tips on handling neonatal emergencies and in otherwise managing the running of the Neonatal Care Unit in hospitals and nursing homes. Special Features:

  • Book is divided into five sections: general principles, problems, procedures, diseases and drugs.
  • Valuable tips and explanations of common procedures
  • Suited to Indian context. All recommendations are made keeping in mind the condition of nursing homes in developing countries
  • Comprehensively illustrated; illustrations enhance understanding of text

Contributors (Author(s), Editor(s), Translator(s), Illustrator(s) etc.)

Lalitha Krishnan

Table of Content

Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations

General

Definitions

  1. Basic Care of Normal Neonates
  2. Breastfeeding
  3. Thermoregulation
  4. Planning a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  5. Nursery Protocols
  6. Control of Infection in the Nursery
  7. Fluid and Electrolyte Therapy
  8. Chartwork in the Nursery
  9. Minimal Handling
  10. Monitoring and Interpretation of Blood Gases
  11. Assisted Ventilation
  12. Neonatal Transport
  13. Imaging in Neonatalogy
  14. Communication in Neonatology
  15. Computers in Perinatology

Procedures

  1. Procedures
  2. Using Incubators and Radiant Warmers
  3. Abdominal Paracentesis
  4. Arterial Blood Sampling
  5. Baby Bath
  6. Bladder Aspiration
  7. Bladder Catheterisation
  8. Capillary Blood Sampling
  9. Drainage of Pneumothorax
  10. Endotracheal Intubation
  11. Exchange Transfusion
  12. Feeding Babies
  13. Insertion of Gastric Tube
  14. Intramuscular Injection
  15. Intraosseous Infusion
  16. Lumbar Puncture
  17. Measurement of Blood Pressure
  18. Monitoring Temperature
  19. Oxygen Therapy
  20. Pericardiocentesis
  21. Peritoneal Dialysis
  22. Resuscitation at Birth
  23. Total Parenteral Nutrition
  24. Transillumination
  25. Umbilical Vessel Catheterisation
  26. Venous Blood Sampling

Problems

  1. Ambiguous Genitalia
  2. Apnea and Bradycardia
  3. Birth Injury
  4. Blood in Stool
  5. Conjugated (Direct) Hyperbilirubinemia
  6. Cyanosis
  7. Gastric Return or Vomiting
  8. Hyperglycemia
  9. Hyperkalemia
  10. Hypoglycemia
  11. Hyponatremia
  12. Hypotension and Shock
  13. Nil Stools for 48 Hours
  14. Nil Urine for 24 Hours
  15. Outpatient Problems
  16. Poor Perfusion
  17. Respiratory Distress
  18. Seizures
  19. Unconjugated (Indirect) Hyperbilirubinemia

Diseases

  1. Common Surgical Problems
  2. Hyaline Membrane Disease
  3. Inborn Errors of Metabolism
  4. Infant of a Diabetic Mother
  5. Multiple Gestation
  6. Necrotising Enterocolitis
  7. Perinatal Asphyxia
  8. Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of Newborn
  9. Retinopathy of Prematurity
  10. Septicemia Neonatorum
  11. Small-for-Gestational Age

 

Drugs

Neonatal Medications
Maternal Drug Intake and Breastfeeding
Acetazolamide
Acyclovir
Adenosine
Amikacin
Amphotericin B
Ampicillin
Atropine
Aztreonam
Calcium
Cardioversion
Carnitine
Cefotaxime
Ceftazidime
Ceftriaxone
Cholestyramine
Cisapride
Cloxacillin
Dexamethasone
Diazepam
Digoxin
Dobutamine
Dopamine
Epinephrine
Fentanyl
Fluconazole
Furosemide
Gentamicin
Glucagon
Heparin
Hyaluronidase
Hydrocortisone
Indomethacin
Insulin
Levothyroxine Sodium
Lorazepam
Magnesium Sulphate
Metronidazole
Midazolam
Morphine
Naloxone
Neostigmine
Nitroprusside
Nystatin
Octreotide
Pancuronium
Penicillin
Phenobarbitone
Phenytoin
Potassium Chloride
Propranolol
Pyridoxine
Prostaglandin E1
Ranitidine
Sodium Bicarbonate
Sodium Polystyrene Sulphonate
Spironolactone
Surfactant
Theophylline
Vaccines and Sera
Vancomycin
Vitamin E
Vitamin K1
Zidovudine

Appendix
Charts
Notes
Index

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