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Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Neonatology Questions and Controversies

Today’s most advanced, authoritative information in neonatology

Josef Neu (Author)

9780323545020, Elsevier Health Sciences

Hardback, published 4 September 2018

220 pages, 81 illustrations (68 in full color)
26 x 18.3 x 2 cm, 0.61 kg

Dr. Richard Polin’s Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the most challenging aspects of neonatal care, offering trustworthy guidance on up-to-date diagnostic and treatment options in the field. In each volume, renowned experts address the clinical problems of greatest concern to today’s practitioners, helping you handle difficult practice issues and provide optimal, evidence-based care to every patient.

  • Stay fully up to date in this fast-changing field with Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 3rd Edition.
  • Emerging knowledge about the basic developmental physiology of upper intestinal motility as it relates to reflux and feeding tolerance, and immaturities in motility by altering composition of feedings and pharmacologic means.
  • New content on genetics and pharmacology, the role of inflammation in systemic diseases in other organs as well as necrotizing enterocolitis, optimizing administration of lipids to preterm infants, and administering lipids to infants who are at high risk for complications secondary to suboptimal lipid therapies.
  • Current coverage of the composition of human milk and clinical trials that address the efficacy of donor milk in comparison to formula and own mother’s milk.
  • Consistent chapter organization to help you find information quickly and easily.
  • The most authoritative advice available from world-class neonatologists who share their knowledge of new trends and developments in neonatal care.
  • Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
  • Purchase each volume individually, or get the entire 7-volume set, which includes online access that allows you to search across all titles!

Gastroenterology and NutritionHematology, Immunology and GeneticsHemodynamics and CardiologyInfectious Disease and Pharmacology New Volume!Nephrology and Fluid/Electrolyte PhysiologyNeurologyThe Newborn Lung

1. Maturation of Motor Function in the Preterm Infant and Gastroesophageal Reflux

2. Development of Gastrointestinal Motility Reflexes

3. Lipid and Fatty Acid Delivery in the Preterm Infant: Challenges and Lessons Learned from other Critically Ill Populations

4. Human Milk Oligosaccharides

5. Donor Human Milk trials

6. NEC

7. Special Nutrition for the Surgical Neonate

8. Controversies in Short Bowel Syndrome

9. Intestinal Regeneration –Organoids/Stem Cells

10. New Lipid Strategies to Prevent/Treat Neonatal Cholestasis

11. Neonatal Gastrointestinal Tract as a Conduit to Systemic Inflammation

12. Early "Multi-omics" and Developmental Origins of Disease

13. Adult Consequences of Neonatal and Fetal Nutrition: Mechanisms

14. Controversies and Moving Field Forward

Subject Areas: Paediatric medicine [MJW]

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