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NEONATAL SURGICAL EMERGENCIES: 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Author(s) -
Glasson Martin J.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1973.tb115210.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics , disease , general surgery , intensive care medicine , pathology
During the past two decades paediatric surgery has emerged as a speciality within general surgery. One of the chief reasons for this has been increasing awareness that the newborn patient manifests unique disease processes and physiological responses and is not merely an adult in miniature. Training and experience in the special problems of infancy have become essential if consistently satisfactory results are to be obtained in this field (Rickham and Johnston, 1969). The neonatal surgeon is concerned with major congenital abnormalities which without operation are fatal and which nowadays are responsible for a greater proportion of ail infant deaths than previously. Many of these abnormalities are obvious at birth or become evident during the first few hours or days of life and as such constitute surgical emergencies.