Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care
A Patient Case Method

Julianne Perretta (Author)

9780803628311

Hardback, published 14 May 2014

608 pages, 130 illustrations
27.9 x 22.2 x 2.5 cm, 1.63 kg

Confidently meet the challenges you'll face in clinical and practice!

Gain a solid understanding of neonatal and pediatric diseases as you explore real-world patient experiences with this unique resource.

Inside, you'll find everything you need to know about perinatal lung diseases

• common neonatal complications
• congenital diseases
• pediatric pulmonary and upper airway diseases
• and neuromuscular disorders.

A streamlined presentation helps you easily grasp the background, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, management and treatment, and the course and prognosis of each disease.

In every chapter, unfolding case studies with full-color illustrations and photographs enhance your critical-thinking skills, making it easy to connect theory with practice. Plus, multiple-choice review questions help you assess your progress. Explore MORE online at DavisPlus! Access your complete text online with the Davis Digital Version and gain additional practice with Student Questions and Interactive Case Studies. Redeem the Plus Code, inside new, printed texts, to access these DavisPlus Student Resources.

• 1. Making Sense of Caring for Kids: A Different Approach to Respiratory Care
• I. Fetal Development and Transition to Extrauterine Life
• 2. Fetal Cardiopulmonary Development
• 3. Resuscitation of the Newborn During Transition to Extrauterine Life
• II. Perinatal Lung Diseases and Complication
• 4. Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• 5. Apnea of Prematurity and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
• 6. Diseases of Full-term infants
• III. Common Neonatal Complications
• 7. Pulmonary Complications
• 8. Multi-system Complications
• IV. Congenital Anomalies
• 9. Abdominal Defects
• 10. Airway abnormalities
• 11. Acyanotic Heart Defects
• 12. Cyanotic Heart Defects
• V. Pediatric Diseases with Respiratory Implications
• 13. Asthma
• 14. Cystic Fibrosis
• 15. Pediatric Pulmonary Diseases
• 16. Pediatric Infectious Airway Diseases
• 17. Neuromuscular Disorders
• 18. Pediatric Accidents with Pulmonary Involvement
• 19. Pediatric Neurologic Accidents
• VI. Ethics and Pediatric Palliative Care
• 20. Ethics in Perinatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care
• 21. Palliative and End-of-Life Care
• Glossary
• Index