دانلود کتاب عفونت‌های نوزادان پاتوفیزیولوژی، تشخیص و مدیریت

If pressed, those of us in the medical profession who are fortunate enough to care for children can produce a variety of reasons why we picked this particular field. If you ask around enough, a few themes recur. Children are rarely to blame for their condition (the odd swallowed quarter aside). Children, by and large, get better over time. And the chance to have an early impact on a long, meaningful, productive life is invaluable. Neonates are the quintessential pediatric patients—they literally have their entire lives in front of them. All they did to acquire their disease was be born. Too often, though, these infants are born with or soon acquire infection—unwanted stowaways that they neither invited nor deserve. Timely recognition and treatment of these infections can have a major impact on these infants’ survival and quality of life. I am thrilled that Springer has supported a 2nd edition of Neonatal Infections. This book is intended as a quick reference guide for the busy clinician caring for newborns and young infants, whether in the nursery, the neonatal intensive care unit, the ward, or the clinic. It covers infections acquired during birth or while in the hospital (Part I) as well as congenital infections (Part II). Summary chapters regarding prevention strategies, including infection control, outbreak management, antibiotic stewardship, sepsis diagnostics, and immunizations, are also included (Part III). The 2nd edition of Neonatal Infections addresses the emergence of COVID-19 since the first edition, in terms of respiratory viral infections, infection control and prevention, and immunization strategies. In addition, there are new chapters on human papillomavirus, Ureaplasma, and sepsis diagnostics, which I hope will prove valuable. This Handbook is intended to be concise yet thorough, and as visual as possible. I am extremely thankful to all of the authors who contributed their time and expertise to both editions. If you find this text useful, as I hope you will, it is because of them. I am indebted to so many teachers, mentors, and friends who helped me through my training. To Julia McMillan, my residency director at Johns Hopkins—thank you for convincing me to pursue pediatric infectious diseases. To George McCracken, thank you for offering me a fellowship spot in the parking lot of Love Field in Dallas, TX all those years ago. To Pablo J. Sánchez, thank you for being a patient, considerate, wonderful mentor and for convincing me to add a neonatology fellowship—it was just crazy enough to work! Most importantly, thank you to my wife, Leticia Shanley. You are the best pediatrician I know. And to you, reader—thank you for taking care of newborns. This book is for you… and them.