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We have taken every care to ensure that drug dosages and related medical advice in this book are accurate. However, drug and disinfectant dosages can change and are updated often, so always double-check dosages and procedures against a reliable, up-to-date formulary and the given drug’s documentation before administering it.

Primary Newborn Care: Problem-solving in the clinic

First published in 2008 by Bettercare. Updated: March 2012, July 2014, February 2015 (layout), June 2017 (significant changes). This version produced on 26 February 2025.

Text © Perinatal Education Trust 2008

ISBN (print edition): 978-1-920218-14-0
ISBN (international paperback edition): 978-1-717898-46-3 ISBN (reflowable edition): 978-1-920218-71-3

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      1. Home
      1. How to use our books
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      3. About Bettercare
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      1. Acknowledgements
      2. Introduction
        1. About Bettercare
        2. Why decentralised learning?
        3. Free Bettercare Online Learning Platform
        4. Learning programmes
        5. Format of the courses
        6. Contributors
        7. Updating the course material
        8. Contact information
        9. Registration
      3. 1 Care of infants at birth
        1. Management of an infant who does not breathe well after birth
        2. Resuscitation
        3. Management of meconium-stained infants
        4. Case studies
      4. 2 Care of normal infants
        1. Objectives
        2. Caring for normal infants
        3. Feeding the normal infant
        4. The baby-friendly approach
        5. Discharging a normal infant
        6. Case studies
      5. 3 Care of low-birth-weight infants
        1. Objectives
        2. Prevention of hypothermia
        3. Prevention of hypoglycaemia
        4. Recurrent apnoea
        5. Feeding low-birth-weight infants
        6. Anaemia
        7. Kangaroo mother care
        8. Keeping good patient notes
        9. Assessing patient care
        10. Case studies
      6. 4 Emergency management of infants
        1. Objectives
        2. Introduction
        3. The management of hypothermia
        4. The management of hypoglycaemia
        5. Management of respiratory distress
        6. The correct use of oxygen therapy
        7. Transferring a newborn infant
        8. Case studies
      7. 5 Management of important problems
        1. Objectives
        2. Introduction
        3. Management of an infant with jaundice
        4. Infection in the newborn infant
        5. Trauma in the newborn infant
        6. The management of bleeding in the newborn infant
        7. Management of convulsions (fits)
        8. Congenital abnormalities
        9. Case studies
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