Neonatal Care: A Compendium of Aap Clinical Practice Guidelines and Policies

This compendium provides a centralized resource for the most up-to-date recommendations on high-quality care for pregnant women and their newborns. It gathers American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statements, clinical and technical reports, and AAP-linked clinical practice guidelines related to neonatal care. Drawing on the work of the AAP Committee on Fetus and Newborn over recent years, this manual covers a wide range of perinatal topics, from prenatal counseling for periviable gestations to hospital discharge planning and post-discharge follow-up of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Key Features:

• Consolidates over 40 topics organized into 9 sections for easy reference.
• Includes policy statements, clinical reports, and practice guidelines with abstracts, concise presentations, data critiques, and summarized recommendations.
• Provides up-to-date bibliographies for further reading.
• Covers key areas such as delivery and discharge, high-risk neonatal screening, respiratory support, infections and immunizations, complications and clinical problems, safe sleep, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)/infant mortality.
• Designed for healthcare providers seeking evidence-based guidance for perinatal and neonatal care.