Publisher's Synopsis
**Selected for 2025 Doody's Core Titles® in Perinatal**
Now in full color for the first time, Klaus and Fanaroff's Care of the High-Risk Neonate, Eighth Edition, remains your reference of choice for concise, authoritative guidance in today's NICU. Top experts offer comprehensive yet easily accessible coverage of recent advances in this challenging field, and include personal and practical editorial comments that are the hallmark of this highly regarded text. This fully revised edition helps you take advantage of recent advances in the NICU that have improved patient care, outcomes, and quality of life, with expanded coverage of genetics and newborn screening, new diagrams and tables, many new contributing authors, and much more.
- Covers all aspects of high-risk neonatal care, including resuscitation, transport, nutrition, respiratory problems and assisted ventilation, and organ-specific care
- Features case studies, editorial comments that provide pearls and red herrings, question-and-answer sections at the end of each chapter, and interactive questions online. These popular features set this book apart from other NICU-related titles
- Contains updated content throughout; easy-to-follow clinical workflow algorithms; numerous tables and illustrations; useful appendices with drug information, normal values, and conversion charts
- Offers vastly expanded coverage of genetics, inborn errors of metabolism, and newborn screening, as well as an all-new chapter on Essential Neonatal Pharmacology for Clinical Providers in the NICU
- Includes expanded chapters on Genetics and Inborn Errors of Metabolism; also discusses the many diseases and conditions that once had poor survival prognoses, but now have improved outcomes (erythroblastosis fetalis, group B streptococcal sepsis, respiratory distress syndrome, and many more)
- Uses a new full-color format for visual appeal, readability, and quick reference.
- An ideal everyday reference for neonatologists and trainees, pediatricians, neonatal nurse practitioners, and NICU nurses
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
