Newborn Care

“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 (PDF)

Recommended by the Department of Health in A District Hospital Service Package for South Africa: A set of norms and standards, 2002

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.

Skills workshops address resuscitation, size measurement, history, examination and clinical notes, nasogastric feeds, intravenous infusions, use of incubators, measuring blood glucose concentration, insertion of an umbilical vein catheter, phototherapy, apnoea monitors and oxygen therapy.

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Price R250| Pages 318 | Last updated 25 March 2010 | ISBN 978-1-920218-28-7