Critical Care of the Child

• 1. Nutrition, growth and metabolism in the newborn.- 2. The induction of fetal lung maturation.- 3. Cerebral blood flow.- 4. Surfactant turnover, surfactant therapy, and the developing lung.- 5. Surfactant supplementation.- 6. Management of asphyxia and intracranial hemorrhage in the newborn.- 7. Respiratory muscle fatigue in children.- 8. Pulmonary sequelae after artificial ventilation.- 9. High-frequency ventilation.- 10. Recurrent apnea in newborn infants.- 11. Reye’s syndrome — a modern medical mystery.- 12. Continuous monitoring of PO2 and PCO2.- 13. Gas exchange during conventional and high-frequency ventilation.- 14. Home oxygen in infants with chronic lung disease.- 15. Home monitoring in SIDS.- 16. Physiology as applied to pediatric anesthesia.- 17. Structuraal development of the pulmonary circulation and myocardium.- Index of Subjects.

'This book should interest the clinician, whether neonatologist, pediatrician, intensivist or anesthetist, who is involved in the clinical care of infants and children with cardiopulmonary disease. It is an excellent source of up-to-date information which would be difficult to find in standard textbooks. The busy clinician who wishes to keep abreast of a wide field of physiological and clinical information in the field of pulmonary research in infants and its practical applications, will find the book most interesting and stimulating.' Intensive & Critical Care Digest, 5:1 (1986)