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Proportions of admissions, days hospitalized, high acuity infants, and short stays vary among NICUs even when compared to other units of the same type.

This book is the leading resource for collaborative, interprofessional critical care of newborns. Co-authored by physicians and nurses, it offers concise, comprehensive coverage with a unique multidisciplinary approach and real-world perspective that make it an essential guide for both neonatal nurses and physicians.

Dr. Karen Kotloff, a pediatric infectious disease specialist, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, talks about her research into staph aureus infections in infants and neonatal intensive care units.

Parenting a critically ill baby is a unique and difficult journey. This article suggests ways to help "NICU parents" cope by developing good parent beliefs.

"The authors assert that a dramatic shift in societal attitudes toward newborns and their medical care was a stimulus for and then a result of developments in the medical care of newborns. They divide their analysis into three eras of neonatal intensive care. The first, characterized by the rapid advance of medical technology from the late 1960s to the Baby Doe case of 1982, established neonatal care as a legitimate specialty of medical care, separate...