Neonatal Care: A Compendium of AAP Clinical Practice Guidelines and Policies

by American Academy of Pediatrics (Author)

This new compendium gives you a single place to look for the most recent recommendations on quality care of pregnant women and their newborn infants. This manual contains American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statements, clinical and technical reports and an AAP clinical practice guideline related to neonatal care.

Within this compendium, you will find the collected results of the AAP Committee on Fetus and Newborn's efforts for the past several years. A wide range of perinatal topics, from antenatal counseling for periviable gestations, to hospital discharge of the high-risk infant, to post-discharge follow-up of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia, is captured in these pages.

More than 40 different topics, organized into 9 sections for easy reference, are included. Each statement or report contains an abstract overview, a concise presentation and critique of the available data, and a summary of the findings and/or recommendations, along with a current and comprehensive bibliography.

Section topics include
Delivery/Discharge
Newborn Screening
High risk Newborn/Prematurity
Respiratory Support
Infections/Vaccinations
Complications/Issues
Safe sleep
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome/Infant death

Review
"The compendium covers a wide range of perinatal topics published over the last several years. This compendium brings together AAP Committee on Fetus and Newborn statements in one book that will be an indispensable reference in every NICU and nursery."

Jay P. Goldsmith, MD (Tulane University School of Medicine)
Doody's Book Reviews

About the AuthorThe American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is an organization of 67,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. The AAP is the largest pediatric publisher in the world, with a diverse list of resources that includes essential clinical and practice management titles and award-winning books for parents