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Asphyxia and Fetal Brain Damage


by Dev Maulik

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Sales Rank: 2409577
Studio: Wiley-Liss
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 372
Publication Date: September 15, 1998
Publisher: Wiley-Liss


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Product Description
Asphyxia and Fetal Brain Damage provides an overview of the combined advances in maternal-fetal medicine, neonatology, pediatric neurology, diagnostic imaging, and molecular biology that have altered the way clinicians and researchers understand and manage asphyxial injury to the fetal central nervous system.

Featuring contributions from internationally renowned specialists, Asphyxia and Fetal Brain Damage addresses the etiology and mechanism of fetal asphyxia, presents the latest information on possible therapeutic interventions, and explains the scientific basis of a range of fetal surveillance techniques. The book also discusses clinical management protocols for high-risk pregnancies and addresses risk and liability management strategies.

Individual chapters address topics such as:
* Fetal asphyxia and outcome
* The molecular mechanisms of fetal brain injury
* Perinatal asphyxia and placental pathology
* Management strategies for perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
* Fetal neurosonography
* Computerized approaches to fetal surveillance
* Monitoring the growth-retarded fetus
* Emerging technologies such as fetal optical monitoring

Supplemented with over 200 illustrations, Asphyxia and Fetal Brain Damage is an invaluable reference for obstetricians, neonatologists, maternal-fetal specialists, pediatric neurologists, basic scientists, and legal professionals.


CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)

All you ever wanted to know about fetal brain damage  
What causes brain damage in newborns? This is the most pertinent question in modern obstetrics, fear of being sued for when a baby shows signs of brain damage after birth has changed the practice of birth by caregivers in large parts of the world. Here, in a concise and well-edited book is all we presently know about what causes brain damage, how it can be diagnosed and assessed and how it might be prevented. Among 19 contributors from America, Europe and Japan it is possible to point out only a few: Dev Maulik from Winthrop University Hospital on Long Island (where the first international workshop on fetal asphxia was held in 1996)describes the role of oxygen-free-radicals, Brian Richardson has contributed a paper on the physiological basis for fetal monitoring, Richard Naye from Hershey, PA has written a contribution on how to time retrospectively when fetal brain injury took place - this will be of particular interest to all involved in law suits concerning brain damaged children. My favorite is Gerard Visser's paper "monitoring the growth retarded fetus" because of the wealth of information it gives to the practicing obstetrician. This is a book that can be warmly recomended to obstetricians, residents in ob/gyn and hospital libraries.
September 19, 1999
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