NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
These are special areas planned to serve newborns whose vital functions are impaired in a way that poses a risk, and where specialist physicians and nurses work, equipped with advanced technology equipment specific to newborns for monitoring and treatment.
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is Level 2 and serves with a capacity of 8 incubators.
PATIENT ADMISSION TO THE NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
The neonatal intensive care unit accepts patients aged 0 to 28 days and newborns with a corrected age of 52 weeks for premature births.
First Degree Priority Patients:
- Premature babies born under 36 weeks
- Newborns who have been resuscitated after birth and S/C
- Newborns with postnatal respiratory problems such as apnea, moaning, cyanosis, withdrawal, tachypnea
- Newborns with congenital anomalies identified before or after birth
- Newborns with asphyxic birth or fetal asphyxia.
- Newborns born with dark meconium
- All newborns with suspected sepsis
- Newborns with birth trauma
- Newborns whose indirect bilirubin level is at the limit of intensive phototherapy or exchange transfusion
- Newborns with pneumothorax
- All newborns with convulsions
- Newborns with high fever and/or dehydration
Level 2 Priority Patients:
- Newborns 36 – 38 weeks old
- Newborns with feeding problems such as vomiting and not breastfeeding
- Newborns with electrolyte imbalance
- Newborns at risk of hypoglycemia or with hyperglycemia
- Babies of diabetic mothers
- Babies of preeclamptic or eclamptic mothers
- Newborns with hypocalcemia
- Newborns requiring cardiopulmonary monitoring
Third Degree Priority Patients:
- Newborns with suspected sepsis
- Newborns with premature rupture of membranes exceeding 24 hours
- Newborns with omphalitis
- Newborns with infected skin lesion disorder
- Newborns with light feeding and dehydration
- Newborns with pneumonia or acute bronchiolitis
- All newborns diagnosed with urinary tract infection or acute gastroenteritis
4th Degree Priority Patients
- Newborns whose treatment has been largely completed.