David K. Stevenson

Fetal and neonatal brain injury : mechanisms, management, and the risks of practice

This book evaluates the numerous events in pregnancy, labour, and post-partum care that can lead to brain damage in newborn infants. The mechanisms by which the brain is damaged, as well as the approaches to treatment and prevention of injury are delineated.

Pathologic Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia, Isoimmunization, Abnormalities of Red Cells and Infections

Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn after birth is a normal phenomenon, transitional in nature, and harmless. It may be protective for the human neonate exposed to increased levels of oxygen and light in the environment outside the womb before antioxidant enzymatic defenses are fully upregulated. The phenomenon is called “physiologic neonatal jaundice” and the contributing biochemistry has been described in the preceding chapter (see Chapter 81).

Fetal and Neonatal Brain Injury: Contents

This book evaluates the numerous events in pregnancy, labour, and post-partum care that can lead to brain damage in newborn infants. The mechanisms by which the brain is damaged, as well as the approaches to treatment and prevention of injury are delineated.

Fetal and Neonatal Brain Injury: Management of the Depressed or Neurologically Dysfunctional Neonate

This book evaluates the numerous events in pregnancy, labour, and post-partum care that can lead to brain damage in newborn infants. The mechanisms by which the brain is damaged, as well as the approaches to treatment and prevention of injury are delineated.