Neonatology Management

Part 1 Basic management: prenatal testing; delivery room management; assessment of gestational age; newborn physical examination; temperature regulation; respiratory manageme; fluids and electrolytes; nutritional management; neonatal radiology; management of the extremely low birth weight infant during the first week of life; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; infant transport; follow-up of high-risk infant; studies for neurologic evaluation; neonatal bioethics. Part 2 Procedures: arterial access; bladder aspiration (suprapubic urine collection); bladder catheterization; chest tube placement; endotracheal intubation; exchange transfusion; gastric intubation; heelstick (capillary blood sampling); lumbar puncture (spinal tap); paracentesis (abdominal); pericardiocentesis; venous access. Part 3 On-call problems: abnormal blood gas; apnea and bradycardia ("A's and B's"); arrhythmia; bloody stool; counseling parents before high-risk delivery; cyanosis; death of an infant; eye discharge; gastric aspirate (residuals); gastrointestinal bleeding from the upper tract; hyperbilirubinemia, direct (conjugated hyperbilirubinemia); hyperbilirubinemia, indirect (unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia; hyperglycemia; hyperkalemia; hypertension; hypoglycemia; hypokalemia; hyponatremia; hypotension and shock; is the baby ready for discharge?; no stool in 48 hours; no urine output in 48 hours; pneumoperitoneum; pneumothorax; polycythemia; poor perfusion; postdelivery antibiotics; pulmonary hemorrhage; rash; sedation and analgesia in a neonate; seizure activity; traumatic delivery; vasospasms. Part 4 Diseases and disorders: ambiguous genitalia; blood abnormalities; cardiac abnormalities; common multiple congenital anomaly syndromes; hyperiblirubinemia; inborn errors of metabolism with acute neonatal onset; infant of a dibetic mother; infant of a drug-abusing mother; infectious diseass; intrauterine growth retardataion (small for gestational age infant); multiple gestation; necrotizing