Oxford Handbook of Neonatology / Edition 2

by Grenville Fox, Timothy Watts, Nicholas Hoque

Overview

Now in its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Neonatology is the essential user-friendly guide for all healthcare professionals involved in the care of newborns. Accessible, practical, and updated with the latest evidence, this is a key resource designed for use at the cot-side.

Using guidance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and including the most up to date NICE guidelines, the second edition of this handbook uses extensive diagrams and an easy-to-use format to cover good communication practice, neonatal emergencies and technical procedures. Fully updated and revised with expanded sections covering therapeutic hypothermia and developmental care amongst other advances in the field, the Oxford Handbook of Neonatology is a valuable and up-to-date guide to a rapidly evolving field.

Taking a valuable family-centred approach to neonatal care, this is the essential resource for all healthcare professionals working with newborns, from the undergraduate medical student to the doctor on the ward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198703952
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Series:	Oxford Medical Handbooks
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	4.00(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Grenville Fox, Consultant in Neonatology, The Evelina London Children's Hospital Neonatal Unit, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London,Timothy Watts, Consultant in Neonatology, The Evelina London Children's Hospital Neonatal Unit, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London,Nicholas Hoque, Locum Consultant Neonatologist, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Grenville Fox has been a consultant neonatologist at the Evelina London Children's Hospital (Guy's & St.Thomas NHS Foundation Trust) since 1996, where he has been clinical lead/clinical director since 2000. He graduated from the University of Leicester and trained in paediatrics and neonatology in London before completing a Fellowship in Neonatal/Perinatal medicine at the University of Toronto. He has research interests in neonatal respiratory care and has a number of publications in this area.

Nicholas Hoque is a neonatologist working at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. He graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine and was awarded a PhD in Neonatal Neurology from the University of Bristol. He has worked and trained in many centres of excellence including Great Ormond Street, Birmingham and Bristol Children's Hospitals, and the University of California San Francisco. He has published original research in peer-reviewed journals, presented internationally and produced content for textbooks. He has sat on several committees at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.


Tim Watts has been a consultant neonatologist at Evelina London Children's Hospital since 2001 and clinical lead since 2011. He graduated from University of Western Australia and underwent paediatric and neonatal training in the UK. He has an interest in neonatal infection and neonatal haematology, obtaining his MD at University of London on the subject of thrombocytopenia in the preterm baby. He has contributed to a number of neonatal medical and nursing textbooks.

Table of Contents

1. Antenatal care, obstetrics and fetal medicine
2. Management at birth and routine postnatal care
3. Problems on the postnatal ward
4. Admission, discharge, and outcome
5. Fluids and electrolytes
6. Nutrition
7. Respiratory problems
8. Respiratory support
9. Cardiovascular support
10. Gastroenterological problems
11. Neurological problems
12. Infection
13. Metabolic problems and jaundice
14. Haematological problems
15. Nephrological and urological problems
16. Endocrine problems
17. Iatrogenic problems
18. Neonatal transport
19. Family support and ethics
20. Practical procedures
21. Normal values, therapeutic drug levels, and useful formulae

Editorial Reviews

"A useful text for students, trainees in neonatology and practicing paediatricians or other professions who take care of newborns." — Inbar Kushnir, Editorial Manager; PER Volume 15 no.2

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Jay P. Goldsmith, MD (Tulane University School of Medicine)
Description: This pocket-sized handbook written by three British neonatologists provides practical advice at the bedside in neonatal intensive care units. It is one in a series of specialty medical handbooks published by Oxford University Press.
Purpose: The authors indicate that the handbook arose out of their clinical files and it covers the expected competencies for British trainees defined by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. This is a worthy effort and it meets the authors' objectives, but the book has limited utility for U.S. trainees for a number of reasons and some of the areas are quite different than U.S. training.
Audience: The book is aimed primarily at students and trainees for use while on service at the bedside. It fits easily into a lab coat pocket and is similar to a Harriet Lane-type manual for neonatal intensive care. The authors are senior neonatal consultants in the British medical system.
Features: Like many handbooks, this one covers most topics in neonatology in a very cryptic manner. Most chapters are systems oriented, but there are sections on family support and ethics, neonatal transport, and iatrogenic problems. The book is easy to follow and well indexed. Some of the line drawings in the cardiology and surgical sections are simple yet highly illustrative of the anatomy that a student needs to know. On the other hand, the x-rays are of poor quality and it is difficult to see the points they are meant to illustrate. Moreover, because of the differences between the British and the U.S. medical systems, there will be problems for U.S. trainees. Different units are used (i.e., in lab values or oxygen tension) and sometimes different protocols are recommended (such as the British resuscitation protocol espoused by the Resuscitation Council versus the protocol in the U.S. promoted by the AAP NRP Steering Committee). Other areas, such as the use of sedatives and analgesia, are somewhat out of date and the narcotic scoring system does not follow what most U.S. hospitals use (i.e., the modified Finnegan scoring tool).
Assessment: This handbook is more appropriate for British trainees. It has some nice features, but the audience is limited by the differences in our medical systems. Other handbooks would be more suitable for U.S.-trained physicians. (The Harriet Lane Handbook, 18th edition, Custer and Rau (Elsevier, 2009), Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases, and Drugs, 6th edition, Gomella et al. (McGraw-Hill, 2009) or Manual of Neonatal Care, 6th edition, Cloherty et al. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008).)

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