NEONATOLOGY QUESTIONS AND CONTROVERSIES: INFECTIOUS DISEASE, IMMUNOLOGY, AND PHARMACOLOGY. 2ND EDITION

• Part 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

Dr. Richard Polin’s Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the toughest challenges facing physicians and care providers in clinical practice, offering trustworthy guidance on up-to-date diagnostic and treatment options in the field. In each volume, renowned experts address the clinical problems of greatest concern to today’s practitioners, helping you handle difficult practice issues and provide optimal, evidence-based care to every patient.

Features:
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

Authors
• William Benitz, MD, University - Emeritus faculty, Department: Pediatrics - Neonatology, Position: Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line, Division of Neonatal Medicine.
• James L. Wynn, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Immunology, and Experimental Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
• P. Brian Smith, Samuel L. Katz Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina.
• Richard A. Polin, MD, Director, Division of Neonatology and Perinatology, Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical College