Neonatal Intensive Care for Extremely Preterm Infants: Japanese NICU Practices to Prevent Mortality and Morbidities presents the latest updates from top Japanese researchers at top Japanese institutions who come together to share their knowledge and implementation strategies globally. Utilizing the same drugs and devices found in NICUs worldwide, this title reviews how Japanese NICUs use them most effectively to improve outcomes in highest-risk infants.
Chapters cover resuscitation and respiratory care, circulatory support, neurological care, fluid management, nutrition support, and infection control. Final chapters are devoted to sharing details of the Japanese NICU clinical environment as well as best practices for extremely preterm infant follow-up after NICU discharge. Researchers and clinicians worldwide will find this title to be an invaluable resource in improving outcomes for this most vulnerable population.
1. Neonatal Intensive Care for Extremely Preterm Infants - p. iii 2. Cover - p. iii 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright Page - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. Contributors - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xv 8. Acknowledgments - p. xix 9. Chapter 1 Perinatal healthcare system - p. 2 10. Chapter 2 Physiology of extremely preterm infants - p. 14 11. Chapter 3 Resuscitation - p. 30 12. Chapter 4 Respiratory care - p. 46 13. Chapter 5 Respiratory care for chronic lung disease - p. 74 14. Chapter 6 Circulatory support - p. 92 15. Chapter 7 Patent ductus arteriosus - p. 113 16. Chapter 8 Neurological diseases - p. 124 17. Chapter 9 Fluid management - p. 148 18. Chapter 10 Nutritional support - p. 160 19. Chapter 11 Infection control - p. 188 20. Chapter 12 Working environment - p. 198 21. Chapter 13 Nursing care - p. 206 22. Chapter 14 Follow-up - p. 222 23. Appendix 1: Birth weight reference - p. 233 24. Appendix 2: Postnatal growth - p. 237 25. Appendix 3: Clinical data references by gestational age - p. 239 26. Appendix 4: Drug Doses - p. 259 27. Index - p. 265
Neonatal Intensive Care for Extremely Preterm Infants: Japanese NICU Practices to Prevent Mortality and Morbidities presents the latest updates from top Japanese researchers at top Japanese institutions who come together to share their knowledge and implementation strategies globally. Utilizing the same drugs and devices found in NICUs worldwide, this title reviews how Japanese NICUs use them most effectively to improve outcomes in highest-risk infants.
Chapters cover resuscitation and respiratory care, circulatory support, neurological care, fluid management, nutrition support, and infection control. Final chapters are devoted to sharing details of the Japanese NICU clinical environment as well as best practices for extremely preterm infant follow-up after NICU discharge. Researchers and clinicians worldwide will find this title to be an invaluable resource in improving outcomes for this most vulnerable population.
1. Neonatal Intensive Care for Extremely Preterm Infants - p. iii 2. Cover - p. iii 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright Page - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. Contributors - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xv 8. Acknowledgments - p. xix 9. Chapter 1 Perinatal healthcare system - p. 2 10. Chapter 2 Physiology of extremely preterm infants - p. 14 11. Chapter 3 Resuscitation - p. 30 12. Chapter 4 Respiratory care - p. 46 13. Chapter 5 Respiratory care for chronic lung disease - p. 74 14. Chapter 6 Circulatory support - p. 92 15. Chapter 7 Patent ductus arteriosus - p. 113 16. Chapter 8 Neurological diseases - p. 124 17. Chapter 9 Fluid management - p. 148 18. Chapter 10 Nutritional support - p. 160 19. Chapter 11 Infection control - p. 188 20. Chapter 12 Working environment - p. 198 21. Chapter 13 Nursing care - p. 206 22. Chapter 14 Follow-up - p. 222 23. Appendix 1: Birth weight reference - p. 233 24. Appendix 2: Postnatal growth - p. 237 25. Appendix 3: Clinical data references by gestational age - p. 239 26. Appendix 4: Drug Doses - p. 259 27. Index - p. 265
