The thoroughly updated, full-color, 4th Edition of The Newborn Lung:
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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.
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Places emphasis on controversial areas that can entail different approaches.
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Features the most current clinical information throughout, with an emphasis on those areas where there have been major new developments in recent years.
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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.
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Utilizes a consistent chapter organization to help you find information quickly and easily, and contains numerous charts, graphs, radiographic images, and photographs throughout.
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Offers the most authoritative advice available from world-class neonatologists who share their knowledge of new trends and developments in neonatal care.
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An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook 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. Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.
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!
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Gastroenterology and Nutrition
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Hematology and Transfusion Medicine
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Neonatal Hemodynamics
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Infectious Disease, Immunology, and Pharmacology
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Renal, Fluid, and Electrolyte Disorders
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Neurology
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The Newborn Lung
Table of Contents
1. Perinatal Events and Their Influence on Lung Development and Injury2. Respiratory and Cardiovascular Support in the Delivery Room
3. Vascular Development and Pulmonary Hypertension
4. Airway Microbiome and Lung Injury
5. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
6. Noninvasive Respiratory Support for Preterm Infants: An Alternative to Mechanical Ventilation
7. Newer Strategies for Surfactant Delivery
8. Respiratory Control and Oxygen Instability in Premature Infants
9. Pulmonary-Cardiovascular Interaction
10. Ventilator Strategies to Reduce Lung Injury and Duration of Mechanical Ventilation
11. Prenatal and Postnatal Steroids and Pulmonary Outcomes
12. Cell-Based Therapy for Neonatal Lung Diseases
13. Definitions and Diagnostic Criteria of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: Clinical and Research Implications
14. A Physiology-Based Approach to the Respiratory Care of Children With Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
15. Long-Term Pulmonary Outcome of Preterm Infants
16. Perinatal Nutrition and the Lung
17. Caffeine-Respiratory Stimulant or Magic Bullet?
18. The Neonatal Lung: Lung Imaging Using Ultrasound and Electric Impedance Tomography
19. Genetic Disorders of Alveolar Formation and Homeostasis
20. Fetal Intervention in Congenital Malformations of the Respiratory System
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