By

•  Anne Hansen, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
• Mark Puder, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

The Manual of Surgical Neonatal Intensive Careaddresses the interdisciplinary area of perioperative management of newborns with surgical conditions. These babies generally spend less than a day in the operating room, but require weeks or even months of complex pre- and post-operative care that spans both medical and surgical areas of expertise.

The topics covered include embryology, prenatal diagnosis/treatment, postnatal presentation, postnatal diagnosis, differential diagnosis, preoperative management, implications for anesthesia, surgican management, postoperative management, and complications/outcomes. New chapters on gastrointestinal reflux and differential diagnosis have been added to this edition.

Though many textbooks and manuals address the strictlty medical or surgical management of newborns, relatively little has been written about issues that cross the boundaries of the medical and surgical specialties.

Key Features

• Detailed practice guide to the non-operative management of newborns with surgical conditions;
• Covers embryology, prenatal diagnosis/treatment, postnatal presentation, postnatal diagnosis, differential diagnosis, pre-operative management, implications for anesthesia, surgical management, postoperative management, and complications/outcomes;
• Fully Illustrated;
• New chapters on gastrointestinal reflux and different diagnoses according to presenting symptoms.