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INTRODUCTION Growth charts help health professionals provide size-appropriate care to preterm infants. Preterm infants are not mature enough to adequately communicate their nutritional needs as do older infants, so health professionals must determine each baby's...
NCRP Report No. 174, Preconception and Prenatal Radiation Exposure: Health Effects and Protective Guidance, updates and expands the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) Report No. 54, Medical Radiation Exposure of Pregnant and Potentially Pregnant Women (1977)....
INTRODUCTION Pharmacogenetics, Adverse Drug Reactions, and Personalized Medicine Pharmacogenetics is the study of the role that inheritance plays in the individual variation in drug response. The response spectrum of a drug may range from life-threatening adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to inadequate...
Preface Advances and adaptations in the life care planning field continue to emerge, and these advances have inspired the second edition of this book, Pediatric Life Care Planning and Case Management. This edition combines amended chapters from the first edition with a series of new chapters...
Preface Over 40 years ago, Dr William Northway and his colleagues at Stanford described the clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features of a new disorder- bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Their comprehensive phenotyping of patients with chronic lung disease following premature birth included...
This draft European Standard specifies a method using high performance liquid chromatography/tande
Foreword to Second Edition Many changes have taken place in the fi eld of child development since the 1st edition of this monograph, most of them undesirable: along with the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity and all the accompanying present and future health problems, levels of...
Preface The fifth edition of Pediatric Endocrinology marks the 22nd anniversary of this textbook. This edition has built upon the accumulated experience of the previous versions and every one of the chapters has been thoroughly updated; thereby its content enhances the reputation that Pediatric...
Prenatal Cocaine Exposures addresses the timely problem of maternal cocaine abuse and its effects on exposed infants, including growth retardation, learning, cardiovascular effects, and seizures. The impact of substance abuse on this and future generations presents an ongoing...
This volume provides a contemporary and historical overview of infant nutrition in Europe, North America, and the Third World. It emphasizes the important role that good nutrition, appropriate health care, and a caring environment play in promoting healthy physical and social growth...
Preface Depending on age, infants and children spend one- to two-thirds of their life asleep. Despite this, very little attention was paid until recently to understanding both normal sleep and sleep-related abnormalities during development. However, the last few years have seen burgeoning...
Preface Depending on age, infants and children spend one- to two-thirds of their life asleep. Despite this, very little attention was paid until recently to understanding both normal sleep and sleep-related abnormalities during development. However, the last few years have seen burgeoning...
Preface The field of pediatric otolaryngology has significantly evolved as a distinct subspecialty within the field of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery over the past two decades. Otolaryngologists with a strong interest in caring for infants and children have led to the expansion of the...
Preface The fifth edition of Pediatric Endocrinology marks the 22nd anniversary of this textbook. This edition has built upon the accumulated experience of the previous versions and every one of the chapters has been thoroughly updated; thereby its content enhances the reputation that Pediatric...
For the first time, an entire publication has been dedicated to providing a critical review of the identification and analysis of the milk specific proteins such as lactalbumin, lactoferrin and casein; the non-milk specific proteins such as plasma and membrane proteins; and the minor...
Preface Drought, plague, and flood are some of Mother Nature's means of population control. Tens of thousands can die in any of these, as we have seen in the tsunamis of 2004 and the hurricanes of 2005. Countries and subcultures often control population growth by war, with thousands killed...
Preface The human gastrointestinal tract microorganisms, termed the "microbiota," have been investigated since the beginning of microbiological studies, when Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, investigated the microorganisms in his own stools. The human microbiota comprises...
PREFACE This book is about pulmonary pathology produced by progress in the practice of perinatal pediatrics. Chronic lung disease in early infancy was an unknown entity little more than three decades ago. Its appearance coincided with the initial efforts at positive pressure mechanical ventilation...
Preface Nutritional status is now recognized as a major determinant in health and disease. The course of virtually all chronic diseases is affected by the nutritional status of the ill person, and treatment and outcome of a disease can be markedly improved if the patient complies with recommended...
Preface The treatment of musculoskeletal infections continues to evolve. We have gleaned our knowledge from past and current masters and our patients. Our knowledge will be expanded and passed on to future generations. We are but a bridge between the past and future. The United Nations has declared...
