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Klaus and Fanaroff's Care of the High-Risk Neonate

  • 8th Edition - January 24, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Avroy A. Fanaroff, Jonathan M. Fanaroff
  • Language: English

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Perinatal**Now in full color for the first time, Klaus and Fanaroff's Care of the High-Risk Neonate, Eighth E… Read more

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**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Perinatal**

Now in full color for the first time, Klaus and Fanaroff's Care of the High-Risk Neonate, Eighth Edition, remains your reference of choice for concise, authoritative guidance in today’s NICU. Top experts offer comprehensive yet easily accessible coverage of recent advances in this challenging field, and include personal and practical editorial comments that are the hallmark of this highly regarded text. This fully revised edition helps you take advantage of recent advances in the NICU that have improved patient care, outcomes, and quality of life, with expanded coverage of genetics and newborn screening, new diagrams and tables, many new contributing authors, and much more.

Key features

  • Covers all aspects of high-risk neonatal care, including resuscitation, transport, nutrition, respiratory problems and assisted ventilation, and organ-specific care
  • Features case studies, editorial comments that provide pearls and red herrings, question-and-answer sections at the end of each chapter, and interactive questions online. These popular features set this book apart from other NICU-related titles
  • Contains updated content throughout; easy-to-follow clinical workflow algorithms; numerous tables and illustrations; useful appendices with drug information, normal values, and conversion charts
  • Offers vastly expanded coverage of genetics, inborn errors of metabolism, and newborn screening, as well as an all-new chapter on Essential Neonatal Pharmacology for Clinical Providers in the NICU
  • Includes expanded chapters on Genetics and Inborn Errors of Metabolism; also discusses the many diseases and conditions that once had poor survival prognoses, but now have improved outcomes (erythroblastosis fetalis, group B streptococcal sepsis, respiratory distress syndrome, and many more)
  • Uses a new full-color format for visual appeal, readability, and quick reference.
  • An ideal everyday reference for neonatologists and trainees, pediatricians, neonatal nurse practitioners, and NICU nurses
  • 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. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

Readership

neonatologists, pediatricians, neonatology residents and fellows

Table of contents

1. Monitoring and Improving the Quality of Neonatal Care

2. Antenatal and Intrapartum Care of the High-Risk Infant

3. Newborn Resuscitation and Initial Stabilization

4. Physical Growth: Physical Examination of the Newborn Infant and the Physical Environment

5. Nutrition for the High-Risk Neonate

6. Selected Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract

7. Necrotizing Enterocolitis

8. Genetics

9. Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Newborn Screening

10. Care of the Parents

11. Developmental Care—Understanding and Applying the Science

12. A Spectrum of Respiratory Problems

13. Assisted Ventilation

14. Glucose, Calcium, and Magnesium

15. Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia

16. Infections in the Neonate

17. The Heart

18. The Kidney

19. Hematologic Problems

20. Neonatal Brain Disorders

21. Neonatal Imaging

22. The Outcome of Neonatal Intensive Care

23. Ethical Issues

24. Essential Neonatal Pharmacology for Clinical Providers in the NICU

Appendix
A.1 Drugs Used for Emergency and Cardiac Indications in Newborns
A.2 Drug Dosing Table
B Drug Compatibility Table
C Normal Values
D Selected Procedures in Neonatology
E Conversion Charts

Review quotes

"...a comprehensive book reviewing aspects of neonatal intensive care from birth to discharge, and beyond. The chapters are well-organized, with key points highlighted and helpful case scenarios at the end of many sections.... provide[s] a concise yet comprehensive reference text for those learning, training, or practicing in neonatal medicine,... with an overwhelming number of existing reference texts, manuals, and journal articles, there is a need for streamlined knowledge.... It offers an integrated approach to neonatal care, with chapters emphasizing parental support, developmental care, and quality of care and outcomes for neonatal patients.... The text is exceedingly readable, with tables, diagrams and images utilized to highlight key points.... provides an excellent overview of high-risk neonatal care for learners and trainees, with updated references and recommendations to benefit practitioners in the neonatal intensive care unit.... an ideal resource for medical students and residents rotating in the NICU, neonatal nurse practitioner students, and trainees in neonatal medicine." Review by Maradith Skalak, MD (Tulane University School of Medicine), ©Doody's Review Service, 2025.

Product details

  • Edition: 8
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 24, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

AF

Avroy A. Fanaroff

Avroy A. Fanaroff is Emeritus Professor, Pediatrics and Reproductive Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Emeritus Eliza Henry Barnes Chair in Neonatology, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, Pediatrics and Reproductive Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Emeritus Eliza Henry Barnes Chair in Neonatology, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

JF

Jonathan M. Fanaroff

Jonathan M Fanaroff is Co-Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Director, Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital; Associate Professor Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine., Cleveland, Ohio.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Director, Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio

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