Download or read book Retinopathy of Prematurity An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology written by Graham Quinn and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guest Editors have invited top experts in their fields to write current state-of-the-art clinical reviews on retinopathy of prematurity. Articles are devoted to incidence, the biology of ROP, How Knowledge of the Pathogenesis Continues to Guide Treatment, The Challenge of Screening Using Tele-Ophthalmology, Algorithms for Detection of ROP Based on Weight Gain, Current and Future Treatment of ROP, Setting Up an ROP Program - Interaction of Neonatology, Nursing and Ophthalmology, ROP and the Oxygen Conundrum: Lessons from Recent Randomized Trials, OCT in ROP—Looking Beyond the Vessels, Outcome of ROP. A special article is devoted to outcomes from the 3rd World ROP Congress (Oct 14-16, 2012).
Download or read book Retinopathy of Prematurity written by Graham E. Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Improvement in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology written by Alan R. Spitzer and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Oxygen Therapy An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology written by Wally Carlo and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In consultation with Consulting Editor, Dr. Lucky Jain, Drs. Maximo Vento and Waldemar Carlo have put together a state-of the-art issue of the Clinics in Perinatology devoted to Perinatal Pharmacology. Clinical review articles are specifically devoted to the following: Monitoring and assessment of oxygenation in infants; Oxygen toxicity in neonates; New methods for non-invasive oxygen administration; Targeting oxygen in preterm and term infants starting at birth; Newborn resuscitation in settings without access to supplemental oxygen; Noninvasive versus invasive ventilatory support; Nasal SIMV versus Nasal CPAP before and after invasive ventilatory support; Is high-flow cannula inferior to CPAP for neonates?; Intermittent hypoxia: Importance; Closed-loop control of inspired oxygen in neonates: Compliance with targets; Meta-analysis oxygenation saturation targeting trials: Do infant subgroups matter?; Targets of oxygen saturation to optimize eye outcomes; Achieved oxygenation saturations and outcome in extremely preterm infants; Pulmonary hypertension in preterm infants; and Current recommendations and practice of oxygen therapy in preterm infants. Readers will come away with the latest information on oxygen therapy as they seek to utilize evidence-based recommendations to improve patient outcomes.
Download or read book Current Controversies in Perinatology An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology written by Robert H. Lane and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Neonatal Transfusion Medicine An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology E Book written by Ravi Mangal Patel and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest editors Drs. Ravi Mangal Patel and Amy Keir bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Neonatal Transfusion Medicine. Transfusions to neonates convey both benefits and risks, and evidence-based data for possible adverse effects, preterm morbidities, mortality, and neuro-developmental problems associated with transfusions is needed to make decisions for proper care. This issue fills the gap of evidence-based knowledge in order to improve outcomes in patients. - Contains 9 practice-oriented topics including potential mechanisms mediating harm from platelet transfusions in neonates; plasma transfusion in the neonate; neonatal blood banking practices; transfusion in neonatal ECMO; allogenic cord blood transfusion in infants; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on neonatal transfusion medicine, offering 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 clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Download or read book Prematurity written by Alan R. Fleischman and published by Clinics: Internal Medicine. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drs. Fleischman and Iams present comprehensive review articles on the current state of science and medicine on the premature infant.The issue is divided into sections devoted to epidemiology, causes, outcomes, and controversies. Specific articles address stress, infection, inflammation, antenatal steroids, and ethical issues surrounding care at the edge of viability.
Download or read book Quality Improvement in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine written by Alan R. Spitzer and published by Clinics: Internal Medicine. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Quality Improvement An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology written by Munish Gupta and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Evidence Based Neonatal Pharmacotherapy An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology written by Alan R. Spitzer and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Spitzer has created an issue devoted to the evidence-based pharmacologic care of the neonate. The issue opens with an important article on A Quality Improvement Approach to Modifying Medication Use in the NICU. The expert authors he has secured have contributed articles in the areas of therapeutic drug monitoring, off-label use of medications in the NICU, antenatal and post-natal corticosteroids, antibiotics, antifungals, and antivirals, as well as bronchodilators and nitric oxide. Other articles also present evidence-based use of oxygen, dopamine, anesthetics and analgesics, and erythropoetin.
Download or read book Human Milk for Preterm Infants An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology E Book written by Francis B. Mimouni and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Mimouni and Dr. Koletzko have assembled some of the world's leaders on breast milk for preterm infants to provide a current overview of the benefits and barriers. Authors address the following topics: Preterm human milk macronutrient composition; Bed-side human milk analysis in the NICU; Human milk fortification; DHA supplements; Potential benefits of bioactive proteins in human milk for preterm infants; New insights into variations of metabolite and hormone contents in human milk; Immune properties of human milk in relation to preterm infant feeding; Human milk oligosaccharides; Treatment and quality of banked human milk; Use of donor milk: collection, storage and safety; Postnatal CMV infection through human milk in preterm infants: Transmission, clinical presentation, and prevention; NEC and human milk feeding; Neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm infants fed human milk; Evidence-based methods that promote human milk feeding of preterm infants; and Human flavor learning: the breastfeeding experience. Lactiation consultants, NICU nurses, and neonatologists will find these clinical review articles to be very valuable.
Download or read book Concepts in Neonatal Nutrition An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology written by Brenda Poindexter and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades, advances in neonatal nutrition have focused on the provision of early parenteral nutrition and the development of formulas and supplements that most closely approximate maternal breast milk. The overall outcomes for infants, including premature infants, have greatly benefited from these advances, but there are still many nutritional unknowns that impact the lives of neonates. This is an exciting time in neonatal nutrition as the focus has shifted from survival and growth, which are still important goals, to effects of each micro/macronutrient on development, prevention of disease states such as ROP, the effects of neonatal nutrition on future health as an adult, and opportunities to improve long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes by optimal early nutrition. This issue focuses on aspects of enteral and parenteral nutrition that are at the forefront of neonatal care: assessing growth, parenteral nutrition components (including alternate lipid formulations), optimal storage and use of human milk (including donor milk), post-discharge nutrition, and the effects of various micro/macronutrients on long-term developmental outcomes. It is anticipated that the study and implementation of many of these novel concepts into the care of neonates, many of whom are severely premature, will be of value to practitioners, researchers, and, most of all, patients.
Download or read book Neonatal and Perinatal Nutrition An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology E Book written by Akhil Maheshwari and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest editors Akhil Maheshwari and Jonathan R. Swanson bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Neonatal and Perinatal Nutrition. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as nutritional assessment, genomics and nutrient needs, lipids and fatty acids, glucose homeostasis, and more. - Contains 16 relevant, practice-oriented topics including maternal nutrition and fetal/infant development; infant nutrition in the developing world; short bowel syndrome and motility; malabsorption syndromes and food intolerance; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on neonatal and perinatal nutrition, offering 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 clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Download or read book Quality Improvement in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine written by Alan R. Spitzer and published by Clinics: Internal Medicine. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Advances in Respiratory Management An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology E Book written by Manuel Sanchez Luna and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest editor Manuel Sanchez Luna brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Respiratory Management. 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.
Download or read book Delivery in the Periviable Period An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology written by Brian Mercer and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is general consensus regarding threshold levels that describe the gray zone on the limits of viability, and gestational age alone should not be used solely in making a decision. This issue will bring light to the latest thoughts and clinical recommendations for delivery during the periviable period. Top thought leaders and clinicians have submitted articles in the following areas: Consequences of Birth at Periviable Gestions on Organ Systems; Medical and Surgical Interventions Before Birth; NICU Care: Nutrition/NEC; Pulmonary Care and Circulatory Support; NICU Stay and Microbiome; and Ethical Considerations and Counseling, to name a few. Readers will come away with the most current content written on this topic and details that can be incorporated into clinical care.
Download or read book Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia An Update An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology written by Suhas G. Kallapur and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
