Neonatal Cardiology provides a sound background in the basic mechanisms of congenital heart disease.

Neonatal Cardiology includes guidelines for evaluating newborns with suspected heart disease and offers advice on treatment and drug therapy guidelines.

Contents

1. Molecular and Morphogenetic Cardiac Embryology: Implications for Congenital Heart Disease
2. Regulation of Myocyte Contraction and Relaxation
3. Perinatal Cardiovascular Physiology
4. Prenatal Evaluation and Management
5. Initial Evaluation and Treatment of the Newborn with Symptomatic Cardiovascular Disease
6. Approach to the Cyanotic Infant
7. Approach to the Infant with Excessive Pulmonary Blood Flow
8. Approach to the Infant with Inadequate Systemic Perfusion
9. Cardiomyopathies
10. Common Arrhythmias
11. Principles of Medical Management
12. Cardiovascular Drug Therapy
13. Care of the Postoperative Patient
14. Nursing Care of the Infant with Heart Disease
15. Counseling Families Based on Etiology and Epidemiology

Index

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