Gastroenterology and Nutrition: Neonatology Questions and Controversies

by Josef Neu

Overview

Dr. Richard Polin’s Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the most challenging aspects of neonatal care, 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.

• Stay fully up to date in this fast-changing field with Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 3rd Edition.
• Emerging knowledge about the basic developmental physiology of upper intestinal motility as it relates to reflux and feeding tolerance, and immaturities in motility by altering composition of feedings and pharmacologic means.
• New content on genetics and pharmacology, the role of inflammation in systemic diseases in other organs as well as necrotizing enterocolitis, optimizing administration of lipids to preterm infants, and administering lipids to infants who are at high risk for complications secondary to suboptimal lipid therapies.
• Current coverage of the composition of human milk and clinical trials that address the efficacy of donor milk in comparison to formula and own mother’s milk.
• Consistent chapter organization to help you find information quickly and easily.
• The most authoritative advice available from world-class neonatologists who share their knowledge of new trends and developments in neonatal care.

Purchase each volume individually, or get the entire 7-volume set!Gastroenterology and NutritionHematology, Immunology and GeneticsHemodynamics and CardiologyInfectious Disease and Pharmacology New Volume!Nephrology and Fluid/Electrolyte PhysiologyNeurologyThe Newborn Lung

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323568456
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	07/06/2018
Series:	Neonatology: Questions & Controversies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	355
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Neu is Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology; he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1971, at Wisconsin State University, Whitewater, WI. In 1975 he received his Medical Doctorate, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Dr. Neu completed his Pediatrics Residency at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD from 1975-1978, 1978-1980 Postdoctoral Fellow in Neonatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA. In 1987 he completed his Sabbatical, Inselspital, at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Neu has received during his career several honors and awards. He Chairs and is involved on National and International Committees. Dr. Neu is active on several Society Membership, Editorial boards, journal reviewer, Service to the Community, Service to schools. He is well known for his lectures here and aboard. Dr. Neu has received many appointments as Assistant Professor, Director, Division of Neonatology, Milwaukee Children’s Hospital Milwaukee, WI, Associate Professor, and Associate Division Chief for Neonatology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Director/Neonatology Fellowship Program and Director of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Table of Contents

1. Maturation of Motor Function in the Preterm Infant and Gastroesophageal Reflux

2. Development of Gastrointestinal Motility Reflexes

3. Lipid and Fatty Acid Delivery in the Preterm Infant: Challenges and Lessons Learned from other Critically Ill Populations

4. Human Milk Oligosaccharides

5. Donor Human Milk trials

6. NEC

7. Special Nutrition for the Surgical Neonate

8. Controversies in Short Bowel Syndrome

9. Intestinal Regeneration –Organoids/Stem Cells

10. New Lipid Strategies to Prevent/Treat Neonatal Cholestasis

11. Neonatal Gastrointestinal Tract as a Conduit to Systemic Inflammation

12. Early "Multi-omics" and Developmental Origins of Disease

13. Adult Consequences of Neonatal and Fetal Nutrition: Mechanisms

14. Controversies and Moving Field Forward

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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jay P. Goldsmith, MD (Tulane University School of Medicine)
Description: Part of a series entitled Neonatology Questions and Controversies, this book reviews current selected issues in neonatal gastroenterology and nutrition. Its 12 standalone reviews/chapters cover such topics as controversies in the use of donor milk, necrotizing enterocolitis, and short bowel syndrome. In this rapidly changing field, the updated information in this edition is a welcome supplement to the second edition published in 2012. This edition also includes access to an ebook version.
Purpose: The purpose is to address "clinically relevant questions and controversies" in the field of gastroenterology and nutrition. This is a worthy objective in this rapidly changing field where questions of the microbiome pervade almost every decision made in the NICU.
Audience: The intended audience is neonatal bedside caretakers, since most of the chapters have clinical relevance. Many of the questions and controversies are common topics on rounds, and this book will be a valuable resource to inform those discussions. The authors and most of the contributors are internationally known authorities in the field, although some of the authors are very junior and some are not identified other than by name.
Features: The chapters cover relatively broad topics in the field of gastroenterology and nutrition. After the first two chapters on maturation of the gut and motility reflexes, the remaining 10 cover everyday problems encountered in a busy NICU. This edition updates all of the subjects covered in the second edition and adds new information on gastroesophageal reflux and gut motility, administration of lipids to prematures, and the efficacy of donor milk. The last brief chapter (two pages) is an informed look into the future by two very knowledgeable researchers. There are minimal illustrations, but they are clear and easy to understand.
Assessment: This book follows the concept of highlighting controversies and future directions more than most of the others in this series. All of the chapters are relatively succinct and easy to read, and concentrate on the bedside issues clinicians face on a daily basis. This is not meant to replace a standard textbook on neonatology or the standard GI books such as Neonatal Nutrition and Metabolism, 2nd edition, Thureen and Hay (Cambridge University Press, 2006). However, compared to standard books, this is an excellent and more in-depth resource for common clinical issues and should be an asset for bedside providers.

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