From Library Journal
The editor, a registered nurse with more than 20 years' experience in the care of newborn babies, has pulled together the comments of a number of nurses, many of them neonatal specialists, to provide the families of sick and premature babies some guidance in caring for these infants. Topics range from identification of the healthcare professionals working in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to typical problems with special-care babies to moving out of the NICU. There is also a chapter about dealing with the death of a special-care baby. Numerous photographs and line drawings complement the well-written and well-organized text, and the useful appendixes list numerous organizations and support groups. Aimed at educated lay readers, this well-researched book complements Theresa DiGeronimo and Frank Maginello's Your Premature Baby (Wiley, 1991) and Susan Ludington-Hoe and Susan Golant's Kangeroo Care: The Best You Can Do To Help Your Preterm Infant (LJ 9/1/93). Recommended for consumer health/patient education collections.?Mary J. Jarvis, Methodist Hosp. Medical Lib., Lubbock, Tex.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
The all-inclusive subtitle is indeed accurate - this bargain-priced reference book for new parents facing a newborn's health problems and the medical community's response to them, covers it all. Trying to untangle medical terminology, hospital procedures that may be painful for the infant and frightening for the parents, the seemingly limitless personnel now charged with your baby's care and the unknown future, all during what should be a time of family joy, is what every parent dreads being faced with. Newborn Intensive Care provides a calm, caring but realistic guide to help families cope. Well-informed parents will be more apt to make correct decisions, ask the right follow-up questions and consequently worry less. This book succeeds brilliantly in providing information - both technical and anecdotal - that will turn parents into well-informed medical consumers and advocates for their baby's care. The book includes a thorough index and glossary for quick reference when medical personnel use technical and confusing language. There is also a bibliography, helpful photos and diagrams and encapsulated notes on outside margins throughout. The chapter on taking your baby home from the hospital - Homeward Bound, Chapter 15 - is excellent, and conveys a sense of optimism and joy, though problems are addressed realistically. This is a book that should be in every hospital's newborn intensive care unit. -- From Independent Publisher
