PCEP Book 4: Specialized Newborn Care, 4th Edition Paperback and eBook Package

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This fourth edition of this popular resource features step-by-step skill instruction and practice-focused exercises covering maternal and fetal evaluation and immediate newborn care. Developed by a distinguished editorial board, the Perinatal Continuing Education Program (PCEP) is a comprehensive, self-paced education program in 4 volumes.

This book features 8 units on complex neonatal therapies, including 2 new units on neonatal encephalopathy and the ethical issues surrounding perinatology, especially when caring for fetuses of periviable gestational ages.

TOPICS INCLUDE

1. Direct blood pressure measurement
2. Exchange, reduction, and direct transfusions
3. Continuous positive airway pressure
4. Assisted ventilation with mechanical ventilators
5. Surfactant therapy
6. Therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
7. Continuing care for at-risk babies
8. Biomedical ethics and perinatology