Current Perinatology Volume 1 / edited by Manohar Rathi.

Perinatal medicine, which is concerned with the problems of the fetus and newborn, has rapidly developed in the last two decades as an important and challenging specialty. Rapid advances in the field, coupled with tech­ nological advances, now are making survival of infants with weights as low as 50...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rathi, Manohar (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1989.
Edition:1st ed. 1989.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Perinatal Hypoxia in the Growth Retarded Fetus: Basic Pathophysiology and Clinical Management
  • 2 Fetal Asphyxia: Its Impact on the Neonate
  • 3 The Role of External Tocodynamometry in Perinatal Medicine
  • 4 Substance Abuse: Pregnancy and the Neonate
  • 5 The Use of Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation in the First Stage of Labor
  • 6 Prolonged Pregnancy
  • 7 Hypertension in Pregnancy
  • 8 Current Concepts and the Practices in Improving Fetal Outcomes in Diabetic Pregnancies
  • 9 The Immune Immature Newborn
  • 10 Diagnosis of Neonatal Infection: Utilization of the Absolute Neutrophil Count
  • 11 Group B Streptococci at Parturition: I. A Case-Control Study
  • 12 Group B Streptococci at Parturition: II. Infant Intervention
  • 13 Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS)—1990
  • 14 When Conventional Mechanical Ventilation Fails
  • 15 Surfactant: Its Role in the Therapy of RDS
  • 16 Perinatal Factors and Intraventricular/Subependymal Hemorrhage (IVH/SEH) in the Very-Low-Birth-Weight (VLBW) Infant
  • 17 Delivery of an Infant with an Unanticipated Birth Defect
  • 18 Hemodynamically Significant Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Low-Birth-Weight Infants: Fact or Fiction
  • 19 An Update in Genetic Prenatal Diagnosis
  • 20 The Effects of Nursing Care on Medical Malpractice
  • 21 Advances in Diagnosis of Cardiac Disease in the Fetus and the Newborn.