Maternal, Fetal, & Neonatal Physiology: A Clinical Perspective
By Susan Blackburn PhD RN C FAAN (Author)
5th Edition | English | Published by Saunders | ISBN-13: 978-0323449342 | Publication Date: November 10, 2017 | Print Length: 720 pages
Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Perinatal and awarded first place in the 2018 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Maternal-Child Health/Prenatal Nursing/ Childbirth category!
A comprehensive guide to providing optimal prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal care. This fifth edition offers expert insight into the physiologic changes experienced throughout major periods of the perinatal experience, emphasizing the evolving interrelationships between mother, fetus, and neonate.
Includes a solid foundation for assessment and therapeutic interventions, with an emphasis on adaptations of preterm and term infants to their extrauterine environment. Features the latest research studies and evidence-based practice, offering vital data on normal physiologic changes during antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods; anatomic and functional development of the fetus; and developmental physiology of preterm and term neonates.
