This fourth edition of this popular resource features step-by-step skill instruction and practice-focused exercises covering maternal and fetal evaluation and immediate newborn care. Developed by a distinguished editorial board, the Perinatal Continuing Education Program (PCEP) is a comprehensive, self-paced education program in 4 volumes.   This book features 8 units on complex neonatal therapies, including 2 new units on neonatal encephalopathy and the ethical issues surrounding perinatology, especially when caring for fetuses of periviable gestational ages.  TOPICS INCLUDE

• Direct blood pressure measurement
• Exchange, reduction, and direct transfusions
• Continuous positive airway pressure
• Assisted ventilation with mechanical ventilators
• Surfactant therapy
• Therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
• Continuing care for at-risk babies
• Biomedical ethics and perinatology