Caring for Children Born Small for Gestational Age

Care for Children Born Small for Gestational Age is a comprehensive handbook that serves to synthesize the extensive recent literature in the area to provide a practical resource aimed at a wide range of healthcare professionals, including obstetricians, midwives, neonatologists, and primary care physicians. This comprehensive handbook includes an in-depth survey of the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and long-term monitoring of children born small for gestational age, as well as related conditions such as intrauterine growth restriction, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Additionally, the short and long-term psychiatric and social consequences of this condition are addressed.

• | Author: Siegfried Zabransky
• | Publisher: Springer Healthcare
• | Publication Date: Dec 10, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 299 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1908517859
• | ISBN-13: 9781908517852