Current Trends in Neonatology and Perinatology

Neonatology is a specialization within pediatrics, which encompasses the medical care of newborn infants. It focuses on the premature newborn or ones born with complications, such as low birth weight, sepsis, birth defects, birth asphyxia, pulmonary hypoplasia, etc. Infants are susceptible to a number of severe diseases as they are still adapting to extrauterine life. These may include neonatal jaundice, neonatal conjunctivitis, infant respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal sepsis, etc. Pe...