Neonatology Questions and Controversies: Infectious Disease, Immunology, and Pharmacology, 2nd Edition

The thoroughly updated, full-color, 2nd Edition of Infectious Disease, Immunology, and Pharmacology: 

• Provides a clear management strategy for common and rare neonatal infectious diseases, offering guidance based on the most up-to-date understanding of underlying pathophysiology. 

• Places emphasis on controversial areas that can entail different approaches. 

• Features the most current clinical information throughout, including a new immunology section that covers inborn errors of immunity presenting in the newborn period and clinical and molecular markers for diagnosis of neonatal sepsis. 

• Includes new chapters on COVID-19; congenital syphilis; gonococcal eye prophylaxis; organ dysfunction in sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis; and drug-associated acute kidney injury. 

• Utilizes a consistent chapter organization to help you find information quickly and easily, and contains numerous charts, graphs, radiographic images, and photographs throughout. 

• Offers the most authoritative advice available from world-class neonatologists who share their knowledge of new trends and developments in neonatal care. 

• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. 

Purchase each volume individually, or get the entire 7-volume Neonatology Questions and Controversies set, which includes online access that allows you to search across all titles! 

• Gastroenterology and Nutrition 

• Hematology and Transfusion Medicine 

• Neonatal Hemodynamics 

• Infectious Disease, Immunology, and Pharmacology 

• Renal, Fluid, and Electrolyte Disorders 

• Neurology 

• The Newborn Lung 

art 1- Infectious Disease

1. Management of the Asymptomatic Newborn at Risk for Sepsis

2. Empirical Therapy for Neonatal Sepsis

3. When and How to Treat Neonatal CMV infections

4. Neonatal Herpes simplex Virus Infection

5. Antibiotic Stewardship

6. Candida Prophylaxis

7. Diagnosis, Risk Factors, Outcomes, and Evaluation of Invasive Candida Infections

8. When to Perform Lumbar Puncture in Infants at Risk for Meningitis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

9. Biomarkers in Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis

10. Congenital Zika Syndrome

Part 2- Pharmacology

11. Pharmacokinetic Considerations in Neonates

12. Neonatal Pharmacogenetics

13. Antibiotic Considerations for Necrotizing Enterocolitis

14. Antibiotic Dosing Considerations for Term and Preterm Infants

15. Antifungal Dosing Considerations for Term and Preterm Infants

16. Antiviral Dosing Considerations for Term and Preterm Infants

17. Antiepileptic Drug Therapy in Neonates

18. Neuroprotective Therapies in Neonates

19. Pharmacologic Therapy for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

20. Therapies for Gastroesophageal Reflux in Neonates