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“An essential tool in the initial and ongoing training and teaching of any healthcare worker.” — Prof Miriam Adhikari, South African Journal of Child Health

“All clinical staff working with very low birth weight infants should study either the Newborn Care Manual, or the Primary Newborn Care Manual, of the Perinatal Education Programme.” —  
Saving Babies 2003–2005: Fifth Perinatal Care Survey of South Africa

Primary Newborn Care addresses the care of infants at birth, care of normal infants, care of low-birth-weight infants, neonatal emergencies, and important problems in newborn infants. 

Chapters cover:

• caring for normal and low-birth-weight infants
• Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC)
• managing infants who do not breathe well at birth
• preventing and managing hypothermia and hypoglycaemia
• managing respiratory distress, bleeding, jaundice and convulsions
• identifying, preventing and treating infection
• congenital abnormalities

This book was written specifically  for nurses and doctors who provide primary care for newborn infants in level 1 clinics and hospitals.

Pages 108 | Last updated 22 March 2012

Primary Newborn Care (Free online edition) by Electric Book Works