Neonatal-Perinatal Infections: An Update, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology
Neonatal-Perinatal Infections: An Update, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

Author: Brian Smith

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2015-03-30

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0323376363

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In this issue the Guest Editors provide a contemporary look at the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, treatment and outcomes for neonatal-perinatal infections. Contributors include neonatologists, infectious disease, and critical care specialists with a wide variety of research interests in this arena. Readers will be exposed to the latest information on dosing of antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals. This information is critical in the infant population given the rapid changes in physiology, metabolic pathways and renal elimination that occur over the first months of life. There is an extensive examination of infectious processes that commonly present in infants including meningitis, bloodstream infections, and urinary tract infections. Additional topics include infectious processes affecting the newborn (chorioamnionitis and TORCH infections) and premature infants (necrotizing enterocolitis). Specific pathogens are highlighted in articles on HSV, CMV/VZV, staphylococcal species, and Candida. Finally, the rationale for the most recent changes to guidelines for initiating therapy for early-onset neonatal sepsis are reviewed.

Perinatal and Neonatal Infections, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology EBook
Perinatal and Neonatal Infections, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology EBook

Author: Joseph B. Cantey

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2021-06-03

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0323757065

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In this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest editors Joseph B. Cantey and Andi Shane bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Perinatal and Neonatal Infections. Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on Perinatal and Neonatal Infections, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.

Perinatal and Neonatal Infections, an Issue of Clinics in Perinatology
Perinatal and Neonatal Infections, an Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

Author: Joseph B. Cantey

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780323757058

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In this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest editors Joseph B. Cantey and Andi Shane bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Perinatal and Neonatal Infections. Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on Perinatal and Neonatal Infections, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.

Quality Improvement, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology
Quality Improvement, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

Author: Munish Gupta

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0323545653

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The Guest Editors have collaborated on a state-of-the-art presentation of current clinical reviews on Quality in Neonatal Care. Top experts have prepared articles in the following areas: Standardizing Practices: How and why to standardize, using checklists, measuring variation; Health Informatics and Patient Safety; Using Statistical Process Control to Drive Improvement in Neonatal Care; Improving Value in Neonatal Intensive Care; Culture and Context in Quality of Care: Improving Teamwork and Resilience; Has Quality Improvement Improved Neonatal Outcomes; National Quality Measures in Perinatal Care; Perinatal and Obstetric Quality Initiatives; Family Involvement in Quality Improvement; Perinatal Quality Improvement: A Global Perspective; Delivery Room Care / Golden Hour; Respiratory Care and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia; Reducing Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis; Alarm Safety and Alarm Fatigue; and Patient Safety: Reducing Unplanned Extubations. Readers will come away with the clinical information they need improve quality in the NICU.

Quality Improvement in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology
Quality Improvement in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

Author: Alan R. Spitzer

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2010-04-29

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1455700533

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This issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest edited by Drs. Alan Spitzer and Dan Ellsbury, examines Quality Improvement in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine. The first part of the issue addresses Tools of Quality Improvement and includes articles on The Quality Chasm in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine; Evaluating the Medical Evidence; The Vermont Oxford Network Database; The Pediatrix Clinical Data Warehouse; Role of Regional Collaboratives: The California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative Model; A Primer on Quality Improvement Methodology; Using Statistical Process Control Methodology; Human Factors in Quality Improvement, Random Safety Audits, Root Cause Analysis, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis; Collaboration Between Obstetricians and Neonatologists: Perinatal Safety Programs and Improved Clinical Outcomes; and Pay for Performance: A Business Strategy for Quality Improvement in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. The second part of this issue addresses Specific Applications of Documented Quality Improvement Methodology in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine and includes articles on Delivery Room Intervention-Improving the Outcome, Reducing Retinopathy of Prematurity, Improving Breast Milk Use During and After the NICU Stay, Decreasing Catheter Related Bloodstream Infection, and Decreasing Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.

Perinatal Interventions to Improve Neonatal Outcomes, an Issue of Clinics in Perinatology
Perinatal Interventions to Improve Neonatal Outcomes, an Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

Author: Ravi Mangal Patel

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780323584135

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This issue is a must-read for perinatologists and neonatologists who need current advances in treastment and interventions to improve the viability of the neonate. The Guest Editors have put together a concise monograph on the topic, offering the most current clinica review articles on the following topics: Antenatal corticosteroids: Who should we be treating?; Quality improvement strategies to improve care of women in preterm labor; Delivery at term: when, how, and why?; Detection and prevention of perinatal infection; Current strategies to prevent perinatal HIV transmission; Advances in fetal monitoring and association with outcomes; Relationship between perinatal interventions, the maternal-infant microbiome and neonatal outcomes; Understanding outcomes and couseling families at a periviable gestational age; Therapeutic hypothermia - how can we optimize this therapy to further improve outcomes; Reducing CPAP failure in extremely preterm infants; Optimizing caffeine therapy in preterm infants; Improving uptake of key perinatal interventions using state-wide quality collaboratives; Oxygen therapy in the delivery room: What is the right dose?; and Perinatal white matter injury: prevention and long-term outcomes. Readers will leave with the best evidence they need to improve outcomes.

Current Controversies in Perinatology, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology
Current Controversies in Perinatology, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

Author: Robert H. Lane

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0323326730

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Neonatal-perinatal medicine has a strong history of evidence based practice but unfortunately there remain many areas of uncertainty and unproven hypotheses and treatments that may harm our highly vulnerable patients. When new ideas are introduced into the labor and delivery room or the NICU we have to evaluate these procedures and therapies before they become accepted as standards of care. We need to learn from the past lessons of grey baby syndrome and chloramphenicol and of kernicterus and sulfonamide antibiotics where therapeutic good intentions actually did more harm than good and increased the mortality rate of premature babies in the NICU.This proposed edition addresses a broad range of current topics in perinatal neonatal practice. The AAP has just issued new guidelines for the approach to a neonate exposed to maternal genital herpes virus infection. The recommendations were not evidence based and are highly controversial as well as confusing. These topics are addressed in a scholarly and objective manner to both address the controversy and help the practitioner make informed decisions.

Care for the Term Newborn, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology, E-Book
Care for the Term Newborn, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology, E-Book

Author: Anup Katheria

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2021-08-06

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0323896898

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In this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, Guest Editors Anup Katheria and Lisa Stellwagen bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Care for the Term Newborn. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as delivery room triage and transitions of care; early onset sepsis; congenital infections; postnatal screening & testing; and more. Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on Care for the Term Newborn, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews. Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including Umbilical Cord Management for vigorous and non-vigorous infants; Fetal Circulation and Critical Congenital Cardiac Disease; Alternative Birth Practices, Refusal, and Therapeutic Hesitancy; Prenatal Substance Exposure; and more.

Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: An Update, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: An Update, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

Author: Suhas G. Kallapur

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2016-01-07

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0323395783

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Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) as a chronic lung disease affecting preterm infants has been recognized for more than 45 years. However, little progress has been made in the prevention and treatment of the disease. BPD continues to be a major morbidity affecting preterm infants. Studies in pre-adolescent children demonstrate that the abnormal lung function from BPD persists well into childhood. Infants with BPD also have an increased risk for adverse neurodevelopmental outcome. Thus BPD imposes a significant burden of adverse health outcomes in preterm infants. The major risk factors for BPD are prematurity, mechanical ventilation, exposure to noxious insults such as oxygen, infections. New research data both in basic science and clinical studies have shed light on the pathogenesis, and possible new treatment or management strategies for the future. In the proposed issue of the Clinics in Perinatology, we would like to comprehensively cover BPD both from a basic science and clinical perspective. Our attempt is to balance new information along with classic topics. The proposed authors for the issue are recognized experts in the topic area/s. We hope that the issue will be of interest to a broad array of readership.