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As the technology for keeping premature and sick babies alive improves, those working in neonatal units are called upon to display an ever-wider range of skills and to manage more and more patients. To support all health professionals experiencing the discipline of neonatology for the first time, Essential Neonatal Medicine offers the depth and background of a textbook combined with the information overview and level of detail of a learning consolidator, allowing its users to gain an overall picture of the specialty and making them aware of key conditions, procedures and diagnoses. This edition includes new chapters on neonatal consequences of maternal disease, congenital abnormalities, developmental care and environment, extreme preterm births and small for gestational age infants. Now in full colour, it includes chapter introductions and key points, tips, end-of-chapter summaries, fully updated further reading lists, and a section of self-assessment questions and answers. Fully cross-referenced with the best-selling Wiley nursing title Nursing the Neonate, it is also accompanied by a FREE enhanced Wiley Desktop Edition - the interactive digital version of the book with downloadable text and images, highlighting and note-taking facilities, book-marking, cross-referencing, in-text searching, and linking to references and glossary terms

Essential Neonatal Medicine combines the depth and breadth of a textbook with the clarity and efficiency of a learning consolidator. Providing a solid reference for trainee doctors, neonatal nurses and midwives, this full colour edition has been extensively updated with a range of new illustrations, clinical tips, cross-references to Wiley title Nursing the Neonate (2010, 9781405149747), and end-of-chapter summaries for quick study or revision. Essential Neonatal Medicine is ideal for all trainee health professionals experiencing neonatology for the first time and looking for a readable and comprehensive resource to support them. It is now accompanied by the enhanced Wiley Desktop Edition (the interactive digital version of the book featuring downloadable text and images, highlighting and note-taking facilities, book-marking, cross-referencing, in-text searching, and linking to references and glossary terms), and a companion website at www.essentialneonatalmed.com featuring figures from the book to download in PowerPoint, further reading, and self-test questions for each chapter.