Manual of Neonatal Surgical Intensive Care

The third edition of the Manual of Surgical Neonatal Intensive Care addresses the interdisciplinary area of the perioperative management of newborns with surgical conditions. The manual is a collaborative effort between the surgical staff at Children's Hospital and the medical staff at Boston Children's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and hospitals further afield. Its intended audience is surgeons, neonatologists, pediatricians, neonatal nurse practitioners, neonatal nurses, critical care transport clinicians, and all other healthcare providers trained to render pre- or postoperative services or counseling in the care of newborns. The authors intend for the manual to be useful to both medical and surgical clinicians. Where appropriate, chapters follow a standard order: embryology; prenatal diagnosis (treatment); postnatal presentation; postnatal diagnosis; differential diagnosis; preoperative management; implications for anesthesia; surgical management; postoperative management, complications and other outcomes. Illustrated in black and white with tables, drawings, and photographs, the text includes hands-on guidelines to the nonoperative management of newborns with surgical conditions.