Neonatal Respiratory Care Handbook Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9780763755461 ISBN-10: 076375546X Copyright: 2011 Edition: 1st Editor: Harrison, Elgloria A. Doody's Expert Review    Score: 100 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Kevin Watson,  BA, RRT  (William Beaumont Hospitals) Description This handbook provides an overview of equipment and therapeutics that respiratory therapists use in clinical practice with newborns or children. Each of the 10 chapters covers a disease, defining it and detailing current treatments and research relevant for practice in a modern neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit. Purpose With recent advances in technology, this book gives clinicians a tool to aid in the setup and use of equipment and therapeutics at the bedside in the NICU and PICU. Audience It is intended for student or graduate respiratory therapists, respiratory educators, and pulmonary medicine residents, as well as respiratory therapists completing an orientation in the neonatal or pediatric intensive care unit. Features The book covers 10 of the most common conditions clinicians will encounter in these young patients -- acute and infant respiratory distress syndrome, asthma, chronic lung disease, cystic fibrosis, bronchiolitis, air leak syndromes, congenital heart disease, and neuromuscular diseases. It provides up-to-date information on each condition and full color illustrations to aid clinicians in the setup of respiratory equipment used at the bedside. For each condition, algorithms and charts give clinicians a quick reference on recommended settings for respiratory equipment and recommended dosages for medication. Assessment This well-written book contains relevant and up-to-date information and would be useful to any neonatal or pediatric respiratory clinician at the bedside. A section on the neonatal resuscitation guidelines might be useful in the next edition. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 10 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 5 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book 5 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? N/A ©2025 Doody Enterprises, Inc.