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Intensive Care and the Surgical Neonate

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This chapter examines the role of the Intensive Care Unit in the management of the surgical neonate. It discusses some of the techniques that are used and looks at the requirements of some specific neonatal conditions.

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  1. Jackson Rees Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, NHS Foundation Trust, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK

    Francis A. Potter MBChB, FRCA, FFICM

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  1. Division of Child Health, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Paul D. Losty

  2. University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Alan W. Flake

  3. Childrens Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Risto J. Rintala

  4. Royal Children’s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    John M. Hutson

  5. Department of Surgery, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

    Naomi lwai

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Potter, F.A. (2018). Intensive Care and the Surgical Neonate. In: Losty, P., Flake, A., Rintala, R., Hutson, J., lwai, N. (eds) Rickham's Neonatal Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4721-3_12

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