David J. Hackam – författare

Neonatal Surgery: Techniques, Evidence, and Outcomes addresses the increasing need for specialized surgical care in neonates, recognizing that neonatal surgery requires unique considerations compared to other surgical populations. This definitive textbook, written by leaders in the field, provides a comprehensive guide to performing neonatal surgery, focusing on practical aspects and optimal outcomes. It covers critical questions regarding the timing, postoperative management, and surgical techniques necessary for the best results. As the first textbook devoted entirely to neonatal surgery, it fills a vital gap in medical literature, offering essential insights for clinicians and researchers alike. The book opens with a focus on the general care of the neonatal surgical patient, covering anatomy and physiological considerations, preoperative workup, anesthesia, pain management, and nursing considerations. It also includes chapters on family experiences, surgical transport, nutrition, pharmacy, vascular access, and radiographic considerations. Subsequent sections delve into specialized areas such as head and neck surgery, thoracic surgery, abdominal surgery, urologic surgery, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and congenital heart surgery. The book concludes with discussion on the future of neonatal surgery and special considerations for surgery on neonates in low to middle income countries. Each section provides detailed, evidence-based guidelines and techniques for managing specific conditions, ensuring comprehensive coverage of neonatal surgical care. Neonatal Surgery: Techniques, Evidence, and Outcomes is an invaluable resource for both clinical learners and practicing surgeons. It serves as a critical how-to guide for students and residents, while offering practicing surgeons an authoritative reference for optimal surgical care, including evidence-based management strategies. Researchers will find the book indispensable for understanding the metabolic and physiological responses to neonatal surgery, adding translational relevance to their studies. This textbook is essential for anyone involved in the surgical care of neonates, providing the knowledge and expertise needed to achieve the best possible outcomes.Offers evidence-based guidelines for optimal surgical care in neonatesCovers comprehensive preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management considerations and strategiesProvides step-by-step techniques for various neonatal surgical proceduresIncludes insights into the metabolic and physiological responses to neonatal surgeryFeatures contributions from leading experts in neonatal surgery

This is the first textbook devoted entirely to understanding and treating necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), one of the leading causes of death and disability in premature infants. NEC continues to occur in neonatal units across the world, and the overall mortality has remained stubbornly high since its first description decades ago. Despite significant research into NEC, and a greater understanding of its underlying causes, there is no single source of information to which the care team can turn for guidance. This book fills that important gap in clinical care.

In selecting the topics for this inaugural textbook, three guiding principles have been followed. First, to include chapters that provide detailed information for the medical team – the doctors and nurses, the therapists and pharmacists, the chaplains and the child life workers – so that each team member can optimally recognize, prevent and treat patients with this disease. Second, to ensure that chapters cover the depth and breadth of the latest clinical and scientific research into NEC, each selected to identify specific preventative strategies or therapies for this disease. Third, and perhaps most importantly, to focus not only on the child with NEC, but also on the child’s family, in order to provide comprehensive information about a disease that families have barely heard about, until the jarring day when their precious infant is affected by it.

This book therefore:

serves as a "how-to guide" for the care of the infant with NEC

summarises critical new research and offers guidelines for future key research areas

addresses the complex and difficult issues surrounding care of the critically ill infant suffering from NEC

Written for the entire health care team including paediatric surgeons, neonatologists, developmental paediatricians, epidemiologists, ethicists, child life professionals, therapists and specialist nurses, each team member will find this book of value. This book was written to demystify this cruel disease, and to unlock its closely held secrets of pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

This is the first textbook devoted entirely to understanding and treating necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), one of the leading causes of death and disability in premature infants. NEC continues to occur in neonatal units across the world, and the overall mortality has remained stubbornly high since its first description decades ago. Despite significant research into NEC, and a greater understanding of its underlying causes, there is no single source of information to which the care team can turn for guidance. This book fills that important gap in clinical care.

In selecting the topics for this inaugural textbook, three guiding principles have been followed. First, to include chapters that provide detailed information for the medical team – the doctors and nurses, the therapists and pharmacists, the chaplains and the child life workers – so that each team member can optimally recognize, prevent and treat patients with this disease. Second, to ensure that chapters cover the depth and breadth of the latest clinical and scientific research into NEC, each selected to identify specific preventative strategies or therapies for this disease. Third, and perhaps most importantly, to focus not only on the child with NEC, but also on the child’s family, in order to provide comprehensive information about a disease that families have barely heard about, until the jarring day when their precious infant is affected by it.

This book therefore:

serves as a "how-to guide" for the care of the infant with NEC

summarises critical new research and offers guidelines for future key research areas

addresses the complex and difficult issues surrounding care of the critically ill infant suffering from NEC

Written for the entire health care team including paediatric surgeons, neonatologists, developmental paediatricians, epidemiologists, ethicists, child life professionals, therapists and specialist nurses, each team member will find this book of value. This book was written to demystify this cruel disease, and to unlock its closely held secrets of pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

This is the first textbook devoted entirely to understanding and treating necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), one of the leading causes of death and disability in premature infants. NEC continues to occur in neonatal units across the world, and the overall mortality has remained stubbornly high since its first description decades ago. Despite significant research into NEC, and a greater understanding of its underlying causes, there is no single source of information to which the care team can turn for guidance. This book fills that important gap in clinical care.In selecting the topics for this inaugural textbook, three guiding principles have been followed. First, to include chapters that provide detailed information for the medical team – the doctors and nurses, the therapists and pharmacists, the chaplains and the child life workers – so that each team member can optimally recognize, prevent and treat patients with this disease. Second, to ensure that chapters cover the depth and breadth of the latest clinical and scientific research into NEC, each selected to identify specific preventative strategies or therapies for this disease. Third, and perhaps most importantly, to focus not only on the child with NEC, but also on the child’s family, in order to provide comprehensive information about a disease that families have barely heard about, until the jarring day when their precious infant is affected by it. This book therefore: serves as a "how-to guide" for the care of the infant with NEC summarises critical new research and offers guidelines for future key research areas addresses the complex and difficult issues surrounding care of the critically ill infant suffering from NECWritten for the entire health care team including paediatric surgeons, neonatologists, developmental paediatricians, epidemiologists, ethicists, child life professionals, therapists and specialist nurses, each team member will find this book of value. This book was written to demystify this cruel disease, and to unlock its closely held secrets of pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.