OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

• Explain fetal surveillance and fetal monitoring, and their application to the management of fetal conditions
• Describe the fetal and transitional circulation system and relate to neonatal disease states
• Describe principles of pulmonary physiology and the basis of neonatal lung diseases
• Explain principles of neonatal energy requirements and nutrition, and relate to problems of the digestive system
• Explain principles of neonatal renal physiology and apply to the treatment of renal diseases and failure
• Recognize and manage neonatal surgical conditions
• Describe drug metabolism of pharmachokinetics in the newborn
• Describe the pathophysiology and management of neonatal hypoxic ischemia