Dr. Richard Polin’s Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the toughest challenges facing physicians and care providers in clinical practice, offering trustworthy guidance on up-to-date diagnostic and treatment options in the field. In each volume, renowned experts address the clinical problems of greatest concern to today’s practitioners, helping you handle difficult practice issues and provide optimal, evidence-based care to every patient.

SECTION 1
Infectious Disease
1 Management of the AsymptomaticNewborn at Risk for Sepsis
2 Empiric Therapy for Neonatal Sepsis
3 When and How to Treat NeonatalCMV Infection
4 Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection
5 Antibiotic Stewardship
6 Neonatal Fungal Infections
7 When to Perform Lumbar Puncture in Infants at Risk for Meningitis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
8 Perinatal and Neonatal Considerations in COVID-19
9 Congenital Syphilis
10 Gonococcal Eye Prophylaxis—Are Mandates Still Justified?
11 Organ Dysfunction in Sepsis and Necrotizing Enterocolitis
SECTION 2
Pharmacology
12 Antibiotic Considerations for Necrotizing Enterocolitis
13 Antiseizure Medications and Treatments in Neonates
14 Neuroprotective Therapies in Newborns
15 Pharmacological Therapy of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
16 Vasodilator Drugs for Pulmonary Hypertension in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
17 Drug-Associated Acute Kidney Injury in Neonates
SECTION 3
Immunology
18 Recent Advances and Controversies in Inborn Errors of Immunity Presenting in the Newborn Period
19 Clinical and Molecular Markers to Assist Decision-Making in Neonatal Sepsis
Index