Two sacred cows of neonatal intensive care---Authors' response

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

Handbook of neonatal intensive care

For many years Hutchison's Clinical Methods has been one of the standard recommended textbooks for students of the Queen's University of Belfast Medical School. Sir Robert Hutchison wrote the major part of the original text at the age of twentyfive when he was resident in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, the remainder being supplied by Dr Harry Rainy, Tutor in Clinical Medicine, Edinburgh....

Handbook of neonatal intensive care

Impact of neonatal intensive care.

Mortality in infants less than 33 weeks' gestation and in those of very low birthweight in Brighton has fallen since 1978. This reduction is not due simply to a decline in the incidence of major congenital abnormalities; evidence indicates that it can be attributed to the introduction of respiratory support.

Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care

AUDIOLOGICAL medicine is a relatively new specialty in the British Isles and the editor of this two volume work is one of the outstanding British specialists in this field. He has gathered together most of the leading audiological physicians in this country and quite a few of distinction from overseas. In the preface he states that his plan is to cover all clinical aspects of this specialty, wi...