The significant strides made during the past decade in neonatal medicine are based largely upon the provision of intensive perinatal care to the parturient, her fetus, and the newborn. In addition to technologic advances in the bioelec tronic monitoring of the fetus and newborn, the introduction of noninvasive methods to monitor oxygenation, the pharma cologic manipulation ofthe ductus arteriosus and pulmonary vasculature, and the use of ultrasonographic diagnosis of congenital heart defects and other lesions, intensive efforts by neonatal specialists throughout the world have also contri buted to the decline in neonatal and infant mortality. Professors Wille and Obladen have provided an authoritative manual outlining intensive care of newborns and the ways in which the science of neonatal medicine, the technology of the 1980 s, and the art of application have resulted in the practice of neonatal intensive care at the Kinderklinik of the University of Heidelberg. The English translation resulted from the success of the German edition and will serve well the needs of the English-speaking student and practitioner of neonatal intensive care. T. Allen Merrit, M. D.

1. Practical Management of High-Risk Newborns

Evaluation and Treatment of the Newborn Immediately After Birth
2 Transport of High-Risk Newborns
3 Patient Supervision
4 Nutrition During the First Days of Life
II. Diagnosis and Treatment of Respiratory Disorders
5 Blood Gas Analysis
6 Oxygen Therapy
7 Artificial Ventilation M. Obladen
8 Long-Term Ventilation
III. Acute Neonatal Diseases
9 Pulmonary Diseases
10 Cardiological Problems in the Newborn
Neurologic Diseases
12 Acute Abdominal Diseases
Disorders of Metabolism
14 Disturbances of the Electrolyte Balance
15 Icterus Gravis Neonatorum and Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn (L. Wille)
16 Infections
17 Hematologic Disease
18 Blood Coagulation and Hemorrhagic Diatheses
IV. Appendix
19 Techniques of Neonatal Intensive Care
20 Instrumentarium for Procedures in Neonatal Intensive Medicine
21 Neonatal Drug Therapy (L. Wille)
Results of Neonatal Intensive Care
23 Parents in the Intensive Care Unit
24 Subject Index.