NICU

Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides comprehensive neonatal clinical services to meet the complex needs of new born infants through highly experienced neonatologists and neonatal trained nurses. The units are purpose built with family oriented care in mind where babies receive the most modern and evidence based care. It provides privacy for the families to spend time with the babies in a supportive and caring environment.

The service in our NICU is rooted in world class Neonatal care based on principles of ethics, fairness and justice. The unit follows the principle of minimal handling and intervention techniques which is the most advanced form of care that results in the best short and long-term outcome for the babies being cared for here.

The babies leaving the NICU are followed up in the growth and neurodevelopmental clinics on a regular basis to ensure that the health needs of the baby are fulfilled and the family is supported even after discharge.

The Neonatal unit is staffed by Consultant/Specialist Neonatologists, Medical Practitioners and neonatology trained nurses providing the highest quality of medical care. The department provides round-the-clock care to critically ill newborns and premature infants.

All our units practice Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) as the standard mode of supportive care for newborn babies. It is believed that KMC increases intimacy and attachment between baby and parent and help a parent feel connected and helps them recover faster.

Our Services

Our state-of-the-art NICU has service capabilities that include:

• Level III Neonatal services
• A direct access from the new state of the new art family and baby friendly Labor and Delivery suite equipped with facilities for stabilization and transfer of babies in to the adjacent NICU
• An onsite point of care technology for immediate blood gas and electrolyte results
• Digital imaging readers in the unit
• Isolation rooms
• Respiratory and hemodynamic monitoring systems linked to a central monitoring system for ease of care
• Omnibeds, which can be used as incubators and warmers
• Open care systems
• State-of-the-art ventilators and CPAP systems

Our Medical services:

• 24-hour in-house coverage by a neonatologist
• Family centered care
• Neonatal developmental care follow-up clinic
• Neonatal ventilation (conventional, high frequency oscillatory, biphasic, CPAP, Optiflow)
• Inhaled nitric oxide for pulmonary hypertension of newborns
• Continuous cerebral function monitoring of at-risk newborns (amplitude integrated EEG)
• Systemic hypothermia programs for neuroprotection of newborns. One of the few centers in the country providing total body cooling therapy for asphyxiated infants
• Lactation consultation
• Anatomic and functional echocardiography
• Total parenteral nutrition
• Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening and medical / laser treatment for ROP
• A-ABR hearing screening test
• Brain-stem auditory evoked potential screening
• Isolation care unit
• Echocardiography
• Neurointensive care EEG monitoring (Neurosonogram)
• Neonatal transfers