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Essential Neonatal Medicine - 5th edition

Author: Malcolm Levene, Sunil Sinha, David Tudehope

Item Code: TE4689

Category: Other texts



$77.95

Essential Neonatal Medicine is an authoritative introduction to neonatal medicine for junior doctors and nurses, by internationally respected consultants from the United Kingdom and Australia. It covers a wide range of key topics: examination of the newborn, birth injury, infection, resuscitation of the newborn, respiratory disorders, jaundice, genetics and genetic disorders, neurological disorders, multiple births, parent-infant attachment, ethical issues and decision making in the care of the sick newborn.

New to the Fifth Edition:

  • Clinical tip boxes
  • Opening and closing chapter summaries
  • Cross-referencing with Wiley title Nursing the Neonate
  • New material on neonatal consequences of maternal disease, congenital abnormalities, extreme preterm births and small for gestational age infants
  • New chapter on developmental care and environment, containing more topics of relevance to nurses

About the Authors

Professor Sunil Sinha is Professor of Paediatrics & Neonatal Medicine at the University of Durham & James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough

Dr Lawrence Miall is a Consultant in Neonatal Medicine at Leeds General Infirmary

Dr Luke Jardine is a Neonatologist at Mater Mothers' Hospital, Brisbane and Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland

5th edition. UK/Australia 2012.

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