For more than 45 years, Avery & MacDonald’s Neonatology has been the premier text on the pathophysiology and management of both preterm and full-term neonates, trusted by neonatologists, neonatology fellows, pediatricians, neonatal nurse practitioners, and ob/gyn practitioners worldwide. Continuing the tradition of excellence established by Drs. Gordon B. Avery and Mhairi G. MacDonald, this fully revised eighth edition features three new lead editors, numerous new chapters, reorganized and updated content, and an increased focus on global neonatology.      Continues to provide comprehensive, accessible coverage of how diseases occur and how their pathophysiology drives management.  Covers the wide breadth of care of the newborn patient, including maternal factors, stabilization of the newborn, common newborn issues, pharmacology, and care after discharge.   Contains a wealth of integrated, practical advice on treating neonates worldwide, including global viewpoints on providing care without the latest technology and under various international guidelines.  Includes new chapters on recent advances in neonatology, including fetal surgery, global health, molecular genetics, immunology and inflammation, thermoregulation, palliative care, imaging, and genetic abnormalities.  Reflects new research on the impact of maternal drug use on the newborn, nutrition, pulmonary disorders, discharge planning, and care of the preterm and small for gestational age infant.  Features timely content on advances in ethical concepts about neonatal care at the limits of viability, family integrated care, early life determinants of life course disease, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and much more.  Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience  Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone.  Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech. 

Detailed, step-by-step instructions and abundant full-color illustrations make MacDonald's Atlas of Procedures in Neonatology, Sixth Edition, an indispensable resource in the neonatal intensive care nursery. This unique reference uses a practical outline format to present clear, easy-to-follow information on indications, preparation, technique, precautions, and how to avoid potential complications. New chapters, new procedural content, and new videos bring you fully up to date with current practice in the NICU. Uses a step-by-step format that presents more than 200 photographs and illustrations along with user-friendly procedural descriptions, helping you minimize errors and promote safe practice standards. Contains six new chapters: Making Low-Cost Simulation Models for Neonatal Procedures, Delayed Cord Clamping and Cord Milking, Surfactant Administration via Thin Catheter, Amplitude-integrated EEG, VP shunts and EVD Management and Wound Care. Includes a new quick-reference appendix with a convenient checklist of procedures. Provides access to updated videos that depict both common and emergency neonatal procedures. Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone. Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

Durante mas de 45 anos, Avery & MacDonald. Neonatologia ha sido el texto por excelencia sobre la fisiopatologia y el manejo de los recien nacidos, tanto prematuros como a termino. Esta 8. edicion, totalmente revisada y actualizada por tres nuevos editores, continua con la calidad establecida por los doctores Gordon B. Avery y Mhairi G. MacDonald. Ademas, cuenta con la participacion de expertos de todo el mundo, quienes plasman su conocimiento exhaustivo de una manera accesible sobre como se producen las enfermedades y como su fisiopatologia impulsa su manejo. Para esta 8. edicion, la gran mayoria de los capitulos se ha reescrito o revisado sustancialmente; con el debido cuidado de reconocer que las poblaciones y los sistemas de salud difieren en todo el mundo, y que esto repercute en la practica de la medicina neonatal en los distintos paises. Incluye contenidos oportunos sobre la salud mundial de los recien nacidos, los determinantes maternos de la enfermedad infantil, los avances en el pensamiento etico sobre la atencion, los cuidados paliativos neonatales, la atencion integral de la familia, los determinantes tempranos de la enfermedad en el curso de la vida, la recopilacion y el uso eficiente de los datos, y el impacto de la pandemia de Covid-19, asi como numerosos capitulos nuevos, contenido reorganizado y un enfoque mas globalizado sobre la practica de la neonatologia.