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Now in full color for the first time, Klaus and Fanaroff's Care of the High-Risk Neonate, Eighth Edition, remains your reference of choice for concise, authoritative guidance in today’s NICU. Top experts offer comprehensive yet easily accessible coverage of recent advances in this challenging field, and include personal and practical editorial comments that are the hallmark of this highly regarded text. This fully revised edition helps you take advantage of recent advances in the NICU that have improved patient care, outcomes, and quality of life, with expanded coverage of genetics and newborn screening, new diagrams and tables, many new contributing authors, and much more.

Key Features

Covers all aspects of high-risk neonatal care, including resuscitation, transport, nutrition, respiratory problems and assisted ventilation, and organ-specific care

Features case studies, editorial comments that provide pearls and red herrings, question-and-answer sections at the end of each chapter, and interactive questions online. These popular features set this book apart from other NICU-related titles

Contains updated content throughout; easy-to-follow clinical workflow algorithms; numerous tables and illustrations; useful appendices with drug information, normal values, and conversion charts

Offers vastly expanded coverage of genetics, inborn errors of metabolism, and newborn screening, as well as an all-new chapter on Essential Neonatal Pharmacology for Clinical Providers in the NICU

Includes expanded chapters on Genetics and Inborn Errors of Metabolism; also discusses the many diseases and conditions that once had poor survival prognoses, but now have improved outcomes (erythroblastosis fetalis, group B streptococcal sepsis, respiratory distress syndrome, and many more)

Uses a new full-color format for visual appeal, readability, and quick reference.

An ideal everyday reference for neonatologists and trainees, pediatricians, neonatal nurse practitioners, and NICU nurses

An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

About the Authors
Avroy A. Fanaroff, MD, FRCPE, FRCPCH, Emeritus Professor, Pediatrics and Reproductive Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Emeritus Eliza Henry Barnes Chair in Neonatology, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

Jonathan M Fanaroff, MD, JD, FAAP, Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Director, Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.




1. Monitoring and Improving the Quality of Neonatal Care
2. Antenatal and Intrapartum Care of the High-Risk Infant
3. Newborn Resuscitation and Initial Stabilization
4. Physical Growth: Physical Examination of the Newborn Infant and the Physical Environment
5. Nutrition for the High-Risk Neonate
6. Selected Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract
7. Necrotizing Enterocolitis
8. Genetics
9. Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Newborn Screening
10. Care of the Parents
11. Developmental Care—Understanding and Applying the Science
12. A Spectrum of Respiratory Problems
13. Assisted Ventilation
14. Glucose, Calcium, and Magnesium
15. Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
16. Infections in the Neonate
17. The Heart
18. The Kidney
19. Hematologic Problems
20. Neonatal Brain Disorders
21. Neonatal Imaging
22. The Outcome of Neonatal Intensive Care
23. Ethical Issues
24. Essential Neonatal Pharmacology for Clinical Providers in the NICU

A.1 Drugs Used for Emergency and Cardiac Indications in Newborns
A.2 Drug Dosing Table
B. Drug Compatibility Table
C. Normal Values
D. Selected Procedures in Neonatology
E. Conversion Charts