Dr. Richard Polin’s Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the toughest challenges facing physicians and care providers in clinical practice, offering trustworthy guidance on up-to-date diagnostic and treatment options in the field. In each volume, renowned experts address the clinical problems of greatest concern to today’s practitioners, helping you handle difficult practice issues and provide optimal, evidence-based care to every patient.
1. Perinatal Events and Their Influence on Lung Development and Injury 2. Respiratory and Cardiovascular Support in the Delivery Room 3. Vascular Development and Pulmonary Hypertension 4. Airway Microbiome and Lung Injury 5. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia 6. Noninvasive Respiratory Support for Preterm Infants: An Alternative to Mechanical Ventilation 7. Newer Strategies for Surfactant Delivery 8. Respiratory Control and Oxygen Instability in Premature Infants 9. Pulmonary-Cardiovascular Interaction 10. Ventilator Strategies to Reduce Lung Injury and Duration of Mechanical Ventilation 11. Prenatal and Postnatal Steroids and Pulmonary Outcomes 12. Cell-Based Therapy for Neonatal Lung Diseases 13. Definitions and Diagnostic Criteria of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: Clinical and Research Implications 14. A Physiology-Based Approach to the Respiratory Care of Children With Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia 15. Long-Term Pulmonary Outcome of Preterm Infants 16. Perinatal Nutrition and the Lung 17. Caffeine-Respiratory Stimulant or Magic Bullet? 18. The Neonatal Lung: Lung Imaging Using Ultrasound and Electric Impedance Tomography 19. Genetic Disorders of Alveolar Formation and Homeostasis 20. Fetal Intervention in Congenital Malformations of the Respiratory System Index