Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Section 1. Delivery/discharge. Hospital discharge of the high-risk neonate -- Hospital stay for healthy term newborn infants -- Immersion in water during labor and delivery -- Planned home birth -- Safe transportation of preterm and low birth weight infants at hospital discharge -- Umbilical cord care in the newborn infant -- Section 2. Newborn screening. Newborn screening expands: recommendations for pediatricians and medical homes--implications for the system -- Newborn screening for biliary atresia -- Section 3. High-risk newborn/prematurity. Antenatal counseling regarding resuscitation and intensive care before 25 weeks of gestation -- Apnea of prematurity -- Diagnosis and management of gastroesophageal reflux in preterm infants -- Donor human milk for the high-risk infant: preparation, safety, and usage options in the united states -- "Late-preterm" infants: a population at risk -- Noninitiation or withdrawal of intensive care for high-risk newborns -- Section 4. Respiratory support. The Apgar score -- Noninvasive respiratory support -- Oxygen targeting in extremely low birth weight infants -- Postnatal corticosteroids to prevent or treat bronchopulmonary dysplasia -- Respiratory support in preterm infants at birth -- Surfactant replacement therapy for preterm and term neonates with respiratory distress -- Use of inhaled nitric oxide in preterm infants -- Section 5. Infections/vaccinations. Elimination of perinatal hepatitis B: providing the first vaccine dose within 24 hours of birth -- Epidemiology and diagnosis of health care--associated infections in the NICU -- Guidance on management of asymptomatic neonates born to women with active genital herpes lesions -- Management of neonates born at e"5 0/7 weeks' gestation with suspected or proven early-onset bacterial sepsis -- Management of neonates born at e"4 6/7 weeks' gestation with suspected or proven early-onset bacterial sepsis -- Strategies for prevention of health care-associated infections in the NICU -- Section 6. Complications/issues. Assessment and management of inguinal hernia in infants -- Hypothermia and neonatal encephalopathy -- Management of hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant 35 or more weeks of gestation -- Neonatal drug withdrawal -- Patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants -- Phototherapy to prevent severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant 35 or more weeks of gestation -- Postdischarge follow-up of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia -- Postnatal glucose homeostasis in late-preterm and term infants -- Premedication for nonemergency endotracheal intubation in the neonate -- Prevention and management of procedural pain in the neonate: an update -- Section 7. Safe sleep. Safe sleep and skin-to-skin care in the neonatal period for healthy term newborns -- Skin-to-skin care for term and preterm infants in the neonatal ICU -- Section 8. Sudden infant death syndrome/infant death. SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths: updated 2016 recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment -- SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths: evidence base for 2016 updated recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment -- Standard terminology for fetal, infant, and perinatal deaths -- Section 9. Other related policies. Advanced practice in neonatal nursing -- Age terminology during the perinatal period -- Controversies concerning vitamin K and the newborn -- Disaster preparedness in neonatal intensive care units -- Levels of neonatal care.

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