Essential Neonatal Medicine occupies an almost unique position in the market, offering the depth and background of a textbook combined with the information overview and level of detail of a learning consolidator. Though comprehensive, it is geared towards health professionals experiencing the discipline of neonatology for the first time so does not overwhelm with irrelevant information, and allows its users to gain an overall picture of neonatology and an awareness of key conditions and diagnoses rather than acting as a pocket reference for an unnecessarily wide range of neonatal diseases. For the fifth edition,?the authors have addedclinical tip boxes, opening and closing chapter summaries,and cross-referencing between this and the Wiley title Nursing the Neonate. There is also new materialOn neonatal consequences of maternal disease, congenital abnormalities, extreme preterm births and small for gestational age infants, and a new chapter on developmental care and environment, containing more topics of relevance to nurses (e.