Newborn Care
Newborn Care was written for healthcare workers providing special care for newborn infants in regional hospitals. It covers:
- resuscitation at birth
- assessing infant size and gestational age
- routine care and feeding of both normal and high-risk infants
- the prevention, diagnosis and management of hypothermia, hypoglycaemia, jaundice, respiratory distress, infection, trauma, bleeding and congenital abnormalities
- communication with parents.
- Full title: Newborn Care: Managing normal and high-risk infants in the newborn nursery
- Author(s): Perinatal Education Programme
- Print ISBN: 978-1-920218-28-7
- Reflowable ebook ISBN: 978-1-928313-08-3
- PDF-ebook ISBN: 978-1-920218-57-7
Testimonials and reviews
“The use of [Newborn Care] has resulted in a significant improvement in the knowledge and skills in caring for the newborn among the midwives tested.” – Dr David Greenfield, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town
“All clinical staff working with very low birth weight infants should study either the Newborn Care Manual, or the Primary Newborn Care Manual, of the Perinatal Education Programme.” – Saving Babies 2003–2005: Fifth Perinatal Care Survey of South Africa
Recommended by the Department of Health in “A District Hospital Service Package for South Africa: A set of norms and standards, 2002”
About the series editor
A previous head of neonatal medicine at UCT, Prof David Woods consulted to UNICEF and the WHO, and is developing distance-learning courses and innovative, power-free medical devices for health professionals in under-resourced countries.
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge all the participants of Newborn Care courses who have made suggestions and offered constructive criticism. It is only through constant feedback from colleagues and participants that the content of Perinatal Education Programme courses can be improved.
- Editor-in-Chief of the Perinatal Education Programme: Prof D L Woods
- Editor of Newborn Care: Prof D L Woods
- Contributors to Newborn Care: Dr D H Greenfield, Prof G Theron, Prof H de Groot, Ms H Louw, Dr N Rhoda, Ms M Petersen, Prof P Henning, Prof C Pieper, Dr A Horn, Dr M Hann.
- Cover photograph: Dr Harris Steinman
- Illustrations: Mary Hann and Anne Westoby
The original production costs of this book were generously funded by Eduhealthcare, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving healthcare education.
