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Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Paediatric medicine > Neonatal medicine
This is a story about the cutting-edge medicine that has saved a
generation of babies.
It's about the love and fear a parent feels for a child they haven’t
yet met.
It's about doctors, mothers, fathers and babies as together they fight
for the first breath.
The First Breath is a book about motherhood and medicine.
Olivia Gordon decided to find out how, exactly, modern science saved
her son’s life. Crossing medical memoir with popular science, The First
Breath is an investigation into the pioneering fetal and neonatal care
bringing a new generation into the world, who would not have lived if
they had been born only a few decades ago.
The First Breath explores the female experience of medicine and details
the relationship mothers develop with doctors who hold not only life
and death in their hands, but also the very possibility of birth.
From the dawn of fetal medicine to neonatal surgery and the exploding
field of perinatal genetics, The First Breath tells of fear, bravery
and love. Olivia Gordon takes the reader behind the closed doors of the
fetal and neonatal intensive care units, resuscitation rooms and
operating theatres at some of the world’s leading children’s hospitals,
unveiling the untold story of how doctors save the sickest babies.
It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered
the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome
was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small
blood sample, every baby born in the United States is screened for
more than fifty genetic disorders. Though the early detection of
these abnormalities can potentially save lives, the test also has a
high percentage of false positives-inaccurate results that can take
a brutal emotional toll on parents before they are corrected. Now
some doctors are questioning whether the benefits of these
screenings outweigh the stress and pain they sometimes produce. In
Saving Babies?, Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder evaluate the
consequences and benefits of state-mandated newborn screening - and
the larger policy questions they raise about the inherent
inequalities in American medical care that limit the effectiveness
of this potentially life - saving technology. Drawing on
observations and interviews with families, doctors, and policy
actors, Timmermans and Buchbinder have given us the first
ethnographic study of how parents and geneticists resolve the many
uncertainties in screening newborns. Ideal for scholars of
medicine, public health, and public policy, this book is destined
to become a classic in its field.
The book starts with a short introduction to the topic, followed by
a detailed description of the anatomical differences between
exstrophy and gastroschisis. In the following chapters, the authors
describe the surgical umbilicoplasty for congenital defects in
children. Outcomes and complications will be discussed in the last
chapter. Written by respected authors, this book will offer
residents and fellows as well as practicing and highly experienced
plastic surgeons essential guidance on treatment and
decision-making concerning umbilical reconstruction. Its numerous
illustrations and clearly structured content make the book a
must-read.
The 5th edition of this indispensable resource captures the latest
insights in neonatal neurology in a totally engaging, readable
manner. World authority Dr. Joseph Volpe has completely revised his
masterwork from cover to cover, describing everything from the most
up-to-the-minute discoveries in genetics through the latest
advances in the diagnosis and management of neurologic disorders.
He delivers all the clinical guidance you need to provide today's
most effective care for neonates with neurological conditions.
Provides comprehensive coverage of neonatal neurology, solely
written by the field's founding expert, Dr. Joseph Volpe - for a
masterful, cohesive source of answers to any question that arises
in your practice. Focuses on clinical evaluation and management,
while also examining the many scientific and technological advances
that are revolutionizing neonatal neurology. Organizes
disease-focused chapters by affected body region for ease of
reference. Features a brand new, full-color design with hundreds of
new figures, tables, algorithms, and micrographs. Includes two
entirely new chapters: Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up and Stroke in
the Newborn; a new section on Neonatal Seizures; and an extensively
expanded section on Hypoxic-Ischemia and Other Disorders. Showcases
the experience and knowledge of a new editorial team, led by Dr.
Joseph Volpe and Dr. Terrie E. Inder, Chair of the Department of
Pediatric Newborn Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, all of
whom bring a wealth of insight to this classic text. Offers
comprehensive updates from cover to cover to reflect all of the
latest information regarding the development of the neural tube;
prosencephalic development; congenital hydrocephalus; cerebellar
hemorrhage; neuromuscular disorders and genetic testing; and much
more. Uses an improved organization to enhance navigation. Expert
ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook
experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, Q&As,
and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Paediatric Surgery has been fully updated to reflect current
guidelines and practices, and offers a contemporary overview of the
subject in general, as well as detailed information about core
subjects. Structured to assist problem-solving and diagnosis, the
handbook contains detailed clinical features on all aspects of
neonatal and general paediatric surgical conditions, it is a key
revision tool for the MRCS and FRCS Paediatrics post-graduate
exams, as well as the UEMS European exam in paediatric surgery. The
chapter on common operations has been expanded, including new
topics on orchidopexy, scrotal exploration, thoracotomy, and
appendicectomy, as well as information on robotic surgery. There is
also a new chapter on global paediatric surgery, outlining the
challenges and future direction of the discipline in India, East
Africa, West Africa, and South Africa. Neonatal medicine and
neonatal surgery both have new topics on resuscitation, ventilation
strategies, jaundice, and congenital lung abnormalities. With the
knowledge level based around what is needed in clinical practice,
supporting background and science is included to strengthen
understanding. Pragmatic and practical, this second edition of
Paediatric Surgery is a vital tool for all those who work in the
field.
Awarded Third Place in the 2016 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the
Maternal-Child Health Category! Breastfeeding Management for the
Clinician: Using the Evidence, Fourth Edition is an essential and
practical reference guide for clinicians. Using a research-based
approach, it includes literature reviews while covering incidence,
etiology, risk factors, prevention, prognosis and implications,
interventions, expected outcomes, care plans, and clinical
algorithms. With a focus on the practical application of
evidence-based knowledge, this reference offers a problem-solving
approach to help busy clinicians integrate the latest research into
everyday clinical practice. Completely updated and revised, the
Fourth Edition includes a new discussion of the vitally important
newborn gut microbiome. In addition, it features new and more
effective techniques for addressing breastfeeding barriers, new
research, and the latest guidelines.
Care of the Well Newborn is a unique text that focuses on care of
the term newborn for the first month of life. Written by
distinguished experts in the field, it teaches students and
professionals how and what to assess in the care of the nonverbal
newborn, while also providing criteria for recognizing deviations
from normal and strategies for managing complications that arise.
The first text of its kind, it provides easily accessible
information on evidence-based neonatal care that follows current
guidelines, standards, and recommendations. Also explored are
physiology and pathophysiology, data collection, differential
diagnosis, cultural considerations, and parental education. An
ideal resource for both students and professionals, each chapter
includes multiple choice questions, case studies, or activities to
facilitate critical thinking and learning.
In 1983 two doctors, one from each side of the world, decided to
form a partnership, and so began a scientific adventure that would
improve the odds that babies could be born healthy and whole.
Neural tube defects that severely disabled or killed babies were
epidemic in China (where the folk term was guai tai--roughly
""monster baby""--for an infant whose embryonic neural tube doesn't
completely close and whose head and neck may be misshapen or spine
may protrude) and a significant problem in the United States,
leading teams of researchers from the United States and China to
combine forces to recruit more than 285,000 Chinese women and to
follow nearly 250,000 pregnancies in an epidemiological study.
Sixteen thousand staff were involved in running the project, which
encountered massive bureaucratic obstacles as well as cultural
differences, politicking for study designs and funding, the crisis
of Tiananmen Square, and testy debates over research ethics.
Nevertheless, the researchers persevered in a collaboration that
lasted more than three decades and led to landmark findings on the
role of folic acid in preventing spina bifida. Fortifying cereal
grain products with folic acid became routine in the United States
and a growing number of nations around the world: that intervention
was named one of the ten great public health achievements of the
last decade.
In 1983 two doctors, one from each side of the world, decided to
form a partnership, and so began a scientific adventure that would
improve the odds that babies could be born healthy and whole.
Neural tube defects that severely disabled or killed babies were
epidemic in China (where the folk term was guai tai--roughly
""monster baby""--for an infant whose embryonic neural tube doesn't
completely close and whose head and neck may be misshapen or spine
may protrude) and a significant problem in the United States,
leading teams of researchers from the United States and China to
combine forces to recruit more than 285,000 Chinese women and to
follow nearly 250,000 pregnancies in an epidemiological study.
Sixteen thousand staff were involved in running the project, which
encountered massive bureaucratic obstacles as well as cultural
differences, politicking for study designs and funding, the crisis
of Tiananmen Square, and testy debates over research ethics.
Nevertheless, the researchers persevered in a collaboration that
lasted more than three decades and led to landmark findings on the
role of folic acid in preventing spina bifida. Fortifying cereal
grain products with folic acid became routine in the United States
and a growing number of nations around the world: that intervention
was named one of the ten great public health achievements of the
last decade.
This book summarises the state of cognoscibility with regard to
normal new-born care that has accumulated over the past centuries,
especially the 20th and now 21st century. This compendium is not an
ersatz discussion of neonatology, but of the fascinating zone that
involves the new-born in the normal new-born nursery. It is not a
homogenous area and thus, some overlap is inevitable in such a
compilation of data. The preface details historical concepts that
have followed new-borns over the millennia of homo sapiens'
existence, such as infanticide, breast feeding, swaddling, neonatal
resuscitation, and principles of caring for new-borns. The
mortality rate of new-borns has been reduced in many parts of the
world in this century and we have learned much more about how to
keep increasing numbers of new-borns alive, especially when health
care providers and society collaborate in this important endeavour
and emphasise known preventative principles. Current modern
paediatric and perinatal treatments allow new-borns in the current
21st century America to have a start on an overall life expectancy
of 78.5 years (up to 76 years in males and 80.9 years in females),
if they receive meticulous medical care even if born into a
penurious state. Such deserved care and inevitable ongoing medical
discoveries will only lengthen these life trajectories.
A new look at how we welcome newborn babies into the world,
whatever context they are born in, but particularly if they are
born in a large maternity hospital. Reflections, exercises and
ideas for midwives and other maternity professionals. "The deeply
ingrained, rational scientific culture we live in today suppresses
our innate knowledge of how things could improve. We focus on
categorising through measuring, counting and documenting what we
do, instead of realising deep inside that things must change with
regard to our rituals around birth in hospital. It's as if we don't
quite know how to engender that change..." Experienced midwife
Debby Gould considers the current situation and explores how change
is not just possible but also beneficial for mother, baby and
healthcare professionals. Questions and exercises are provided to
stimulate reflection and seminar discussion. Following a varied and
distinguished career in many maternity contexts, Debby Gould is
currently Head of Midwifery for University College London Hospitals
and has served two full terms in office (as Deputy Chair, then
Chair) on the Royal College of Midwives Council. She is also named
in Debrett's People of Today as one of the top 25,000 influential
and successful people in the UK. Her words are well worth reading
This book has been written to summarise the available knowledge
regarding transcutaneous bilirubinometry, the first technique that
allows a completely non-invasive measurement of a clinical
variable. This technique led to important changes in the management
of neonatal jaundice, the most common clinical condition of
new-born infants world-wide. Transcutaneous bilirubinometry has its
roots in the old observation that yellow skin colour is due to the
deposition of bilirubin, a chromophore molecule. More recently,
transcutaneous bilirubinometry has involved many disciplines; and
accordingly, this book has contributions from physicists,
biologists, paediatric dermatologists and neonatologists who have
clinical research expertise in the field of neonatal
hyperbilirubinemia. We hope that this book may prompt the
advancement of research that will answer the as-yet unanswered
questions, improve the reliability and usefulness of transcutaneous
bilirubinometry, and respond to the clinical needs of our little
patients.
Severely unwell children are the most frightening emergency a
clinician can face. This second edition of Emergencies in
Paediatrics and Neonatology, guides the clinician through what to
do and when, in a format that can be read at the bedside.
Resuscitation techniques are described in detail and comprehensive
management plans are provided. Organised by symptom, the handbook
concisely covers a range of essential information, from the key
facts to elicit in the history to the specific difficulties of
treating children in an emergency situation - communication and
pain relief. Symbols are used to indicate clinical severity ranging
from life-threatening to minor, and the book includes detailed drug
dosages for children and the most recent resuscitation guidelines.
The new edition brings this bestselling guide fully up-to-date,
including the management of anaphylaxis and rheumatic fever. The
number of algorithms included in the book has also been increased.
This is the true story of the heart-wrenching struggle for
survival, devastating financial loss, and the power of hope that
comes with extremely premature babies born nearly four months
early. The twin babies arrived at 24 weeks gestation and each
weighed a pound. Imagine that, the same as six sticks of butter
It's a riveting story of despair and tragedy, joy and laughter. I
couldn't put it down and I hope you find it the same way...perhaps
just not so late into the wee hours of the night. Re-told from
journals, the story unfolds like a medical-mystery. Will the twins
survive? Will they have devastating disabilities? The breath-taking
pace of life-altering decisions in a Neonatal Intensive Care
setting is like witnessing an accident--one you can't bear to watch
and yet so compelling you can't look away. Follow the
roller-coaster ride through heroics, medical miracles, unrelenting
fear, and heart-warming joy. The events of this true story will
make you cry. You'll be appalled at the insensitivity of some
towards this young family. You'll be angry at the gall of insurance
companies that use "fine print" to deny coverage for certain
medical treatments. And you'll rejoice with the miracle of life
fought for and won. With less than a 20% chance of survival at
birth, the doctors warned; "If the babies manage to survive, they
have an 80% chance of debilitating issues--including cerebral
palsy, breathing issues, and severe learning disabilities." The
second edition of A Pound of Hope adds the much awaited five-year
look back on this harrowing start in life. Read the unexpected
outcome (I won't spoil the surprise here ) of these one-pound
miracle babies. The backdrop setting for this story of survival is
one of financial disaster. This family is bankrupted by the
unrelenting medical costs to save their babies. They lose
everything--savings and retirement accounts are emptied; belongings
are sold and their house is lost as they fall into the bottomless
pit of medical bankruptcy. Our leaders in health insurance, medical
services, and government have failed to address a hole in the very
fabric of our society. A hole so big it swallows families at a time
when they are experiencing life-threatening issues. For what is the
point of medical miracles if there is no way to pay for them? Our
society has developed machines and techniques to preserve and
extend life against all odds. But at what cost? Families stricken
with the financial burden of catastrophic medical bills will see
their financial stability, their future, even their very viability
as a family slip away. If science can save the babies, who will
save the family?
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