cover image - Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 10th Edition
ISBN: 9780323931786
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 10-31-2025
Page Count: 1032
Imprint: Elsevier
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Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 10th Edition

by Mary I. Enzman-Hines, APRN, PhD, CNS, CPNP, APHN-BC, Brian S. Carter, MD, FAAP and Susan Niermeyer, MD, MPH, FAAP

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cover image - Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 10th Edition
ISBN: 9780323931786
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 10-31-2025
Page Count: 1032
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $95.99
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**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Critical Care**

Co-edited by a team of physicians and nurses, Merenstein & Gardner’s Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care: An Interprofessional Approach, Tenth Edition, is the leading resource for interprofessional collaborative care of critically ill newborns. Now printed in full color, it offers comprehensive coverage with a unique interprofessional collaborative approach and a real-world perspective that make it a practical guide for both nurses and physicians. This edition features updated content throughout to reflect the latest evidence-informed/evidence-based practice, national and international guidelines, and current protocols; a new Interprofessional Collaborative Practice chapter that provides a foundation for the team approach applied throughout the book; an expanded focus on parent teaching that reflects today’s diversity of family structures; an enhanced focus on gender and racial/ethnic inclusivity; and much more!
    • NEW! Updated content throughout reflects the latest evidence-informed/evidence-based practice, national and international guidelines, and current protocols for interprofessional collaborative practice in the NICU
    • NEW! Interprofessional Collaborative Practice chapter provides a foundation for the team approach applied throughout the book
    • NEW! Expanded focus on parent teaching, particularly in today’s diversity of family structures (including LGBTQ+ parents, surrogate parents, and removing the stigma of single parenthood), equips you for the contemporary milieu of the NICU
    • NEW! Enhanced focus on gender and racial/ethnic inclusivity puts special emphasis on inclusive language and on the growing challenge of identifying genetically linked conditions (such as G6PD, immune disorders, and sickle cell disease) in patients of mixed backgrounds, prepares you to provide effective and culturally competent care
    • NEW! Content addresses the latest information and advances on key topics such as NICU follow-up, combatting healthcare disparities, the Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care (IKMC) protocol, the unique challenges of global pandemics in the NICU, discharge planning, and the growing problem of aggression from family members seeking information or access to pediatric patients
    • NEW! Now printed in full color, with a full-color illustration program for improved usability and reference value
    • UNIQUE! Core editor team of an advanced practice nurse and two physicians gives this internationally recognized reference a true interprofessional collaborative approach that is unmatched by any other resource
    • Consistent organization within clinical chapters includes Physiology/Pathophysiology, Etiology, Prevention, Data Collection (History, Signs and Symptoms, and Laboratory Data), Treatment/Intervention, Complications, and Parent Teaching sections
    • UNIQUE! Color-highlighted point-of-care clinical content makes high-priority clinical content quick and easy to find
    • UNIQUE! Parent Teaching boxes outline the relevant information to be shared with a newborn patient’s caregivers
    • Critical Findings boxes outline symptoms and diagnostic findings that require immediate attention to help you prioritize assessment data and steps in initial care
    • Case Studies demonstrate how to apply essential content to realistic clinical scenarios for application-based learning
  • UNIT 1 Foundations for Practice
    1. Interprofessional Collaboration and Evidence-Based Practice: Promoting Exceptional Care

    UNIT 2 Support of the Neonate
    2. Prenatal Environment Effect on Neonatal Outcome
    3. Perinatal Transport and Levels of Care
    4. Care at Birth
    5. Immediate Newborn Care After Birth
    6. Heat Balance
    7. Physiologic Monitoring
    8. Acid-Base Homeostasis and Oxygenation
    9. Diagnostic Imaging in the Neonate
    10. Pharmacology in Neonatal Care
    11. Drug Withdrawal in the Neonate
    12. Pain and Pain Relief
    13. The Neonate and the Environmental Impact on Development

    UNIT 3 Metabolic and Nutritional Care of the Neonate
    14. Fluid and Electrolyte Management
    15. Glucose Homeostasis
    16. Total Parenteral Nutrition
    17. Enteral Nutrition
    18. Breastfeeding the Neonate With Special Needs
    19. Skin and Skin Care

    UNIT 4 Infection and Hematologic Diseases of the Neonate
    20. Newborn Hematology
    21. Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
    22. Infection in the Neonate

    UNIT 5 Common Systemic Diseases of the Neonate
    23. Respiratory Diseases
    24. Cardiovascular Diseases and Surgical Interventions
    25. Neonatal Nephrology
    26. Neurologic Disorders
    27. Genetic Disorders, Malformations, and Inborn Errors of Metabolism
    28. Neonatal Surgery

    UNIT 6 Psychosocial Aspects of Neonatal Care
    29. NICU Families in Crisis
    30. Bereavement in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): Health Equity in Context
    31. Discharge Planning and Follow-Up of the NICU Infant
    32. Ethics, Values, and Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care
  • Mary I. Enzman-Hines, APRN, PhD, CNS, CPNP, APHN-BC, Professor of Nursing, DNP Program Coordinator, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Colorado Springs Health Partners, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, Brian S. Carter, MD, FAAP, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Division of Neonatology & Bioethics Center, Children’s Mercy Hospital-Kansas City , Kansas City, Missouri and Susan Niermeyer, MD, MPH, FAAP, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, USA
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