ABC of the First Year

This well-established book gives clear guidance on normal development and how to diagnose and manage illness in newborn infants and babies. The sixth edition of the ABC of the First Year has been fully revised and updated to reflect the introduction of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines, the reduction in universal screening and the increasing care of the newborn provided by family practitioners and midwives. There are new sections on the recognition and prevention of obesity, which is an increasing problem. The reduction in universal screening has resulted in parents requesting advice about their child's development at a variety of ages. A Development Chart shows the age-related normal range in different abilities and activities and will enable family doctors, at a glance, to determine whether a parent should be reassured that an infant is normal or needs further assessment. The inclusion of useful links and addresses of resources and organisations helps make the new edition of the ABC of the First Year an invaluable resource for GPs, midwives, paediatric nurses, health visitors and medical students, and an ideal companion to Bernard Valman's ABC of One to Seven.

ISBN 1405180374   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781405180375 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 456 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Chicester Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Series ISSN 42 Format Paperback   Series title ABC Series Publication date 02 Jan 2009   Previous ISBN 9780727916815 Library of Congress 2008006129   Height (mm) 275 DEWEY 618.9202   Width (mm) 221 DEWEY edition DC22   Spine width (mm) 8 Pages 136   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

Preface to the sixth edition. Foreword to the first edition. Acknowledgements. 1 Prenatal assessment. 2 Resuscitation of the newborn. 3 Infants of low birthweight. 4 Breathing difficulties in the newborn. 5 Birth trauma. 6 Some congenital abnormalities. 7 Routine examination of the newborn. 8 Dislocated and dislocatable hip in the newborn. 9 Infection in the newborn. 10 Jaundice in the newborn. 11 Convulsions in the newborn. 12 Vomiting. 13 Diarrhoea. 14 Mother-infant attachment. 15 Growth and growth charts. 16 Feeding and feeding problems. 17 Failure to thrive. 18 Weaning. 19 Review at six weeks. 20 Review at eight months. 21 Respiratory infections in the older infant. 22 Fever in the older infant. 23 Convulsions in the older infant. 24 Crying babies and sleep problems. 25 Non-accidental injury. 26 Selected Drugs. Index

"A concise and illustrated text of assessment, diagnosis and approaches to healthy and diseased babies. For medical students and nurses." (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, April 2010) "The structure of the book is reader-friendly with clear objectives for each chapter and summary boxes enabling the reader to navigate very easily and have quick access to the needed information. The figures and diagrams are clear, optimal and appropriate to the contents. They are very illustrative and many of them could be used when counseling or giving explanations to parents." (SQU Medical Journal, April 2010)“This well-established book gives clear guidance on normal development and how to diagnose and manage illness in newborn infants and babies." (Doody's Reviews, June 2009)

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