Dr. Spitzer has created an issue devoted to the evidence-based pharmacologic care of the neonate. The issue opens with an important article on A Quality Improvement Approach to Modifying Medication Use in the NICU. The expert authors he has secured have contributed articles in the areas of therapeutic drug monitoring, off-label use of medications in the NICU, antenatal and post-natal corticosteroids, antibiotics, antifungals, and antivirals, as well as bronchodilators and nitric oxide. Other articles also present evidence-based use of oxygen, dopamine, anesthetics and analgesics, and erythropoetin.
Top authors were selected to write clinical review articles devoted to Advances in Respiratory Care of the Newborn.
... use of TH for term and near-term infants with moderate or severe HIE moved from experimental to routine, both the challenges and the potential of this treatment emerged as hot topics of debate and exploration among neonatologists.
FORTHCOMING ISSUES March 2013 Necrotizing Enterocolitis Patricia Denning, MD, and Akhil Maheshwari, MD, ... Clinics of North America, Volume 59, Issue 5 (October 2012) Neonatal and Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology John N. van den Anker, ...
article discusses the role of food intolerance and malabsorption as causes of feeding intolerance in the NICU. DEFINITIONS The terminology describing an abnormal response to food intake can be quite confusing and is often used ...
The Term Newborn: Congenital Infections 485 Amaran Moodley and Kurlen S.E. Payton Maternal pathogens can be ... and to focus attention on controversial issues and concepts with the potential to effect change in clinical approach.
Developed by one of the most authoritative associations in neonatal intensive nursing care, AWHONN, this renowned guide provides in-depth coverage of the most common neonatal disorders and their management — focusing on the latest ...
Passmore CM, McElnay JC, Rainey EA, et al. Metronidazole excretion in human milk and its effect on the suckling neonate. Br J Clin Pharmacol 1988;26(1): 45–51. 41. de Sa Del Fiol F, Barberato-Filho S, de Cassia Bergamaschi C, et al.
American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs, 4, 87. ... Predefined massive transfusion protocols are associated with a reduction in organ failure and postinjury complications. ... Hematology/oncology Clinics of North America, 24, 215.
Syringe(s) containing the methotrexate should be dispensed from the pharmacy no more than three-quarters full in a sealed ... molar pregnancies, gestational choriocarcinoma and placental site trophoblastic tumors are also GTNs (Cohn, ...
Cardiovascular System, Immunity, Coagulation Walters WAW, Limm VL: Blood volume and haemodynamics in pregnancy. Clin Obstet Gynaecol 2:301, 1975. Lindesman R, Miller MM: Blood volume changes during the immediate postpartum period.