Newborn Intensive Care. What Every Parent Needs to Know

Developed by experts as a guidebook for parents of NICU patients, Newborn Intensive Care is so content-rich and insight-filled that it has become a popular reference for a wide range of medical professionals.

Now the AAP offers this best-selling resource in an extensively revised and updated new edition - the first since 2002. Expert contributors illuminate everything from communicating with parents; to the latest clinical and technologic advances; to the most effective use of posthospital care resources.

Look here for

• Valuable perspectives on today's NICU experience from admission to outcome
• Contributions from highly experienced physicians, NICU nurses, and neonatologists
• Numerous photos, diagrams, and line drawings
• Quick reference tools: bibliography, resource listings, glossary of common abbreviations and terms

Targeting key NICU issues and concerns

• Provider/parent relationships
• Roles of health care team members
• Mother-baby factors: effects on newborn health
• Issues associated with premature birth
• Major medical conditions
• Dealing with patient death
• Neonatal surgery
• Diagnostic and therapeutic techniques
• Transitioning to intermediate care
• Transitioning to home