Facilities available in the newborn unit

The Newborn Unit is capable of taking care of all problems of sick newborns from 25 weeks of gestation upwards. The unit is ably supported by several ancillary departments (most of which have faculty members dedicated for Pediatric work) and sister units within Pediatrics:

• Pediatric surgery
• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Radiology
• Cardiology
• Gastroenterology
• Pediatric neurology
• Pediatric hematology oncology
• Pediatric endocrinology
• Pediatric immunology
• Clinical Genetics (Pediatrics)
• Pediatric biochemistry

The Intensive Care areas of the newborn unit are divided into a 16-bedded neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and a 6-bedded ICU attached to the stepdown care area (Nursery-ICU). The resuscitation and stabilisation area is divided into a 4-bedded resuscitation-cum-stabilisation area (called the clean labour room Nursery), another 4-bedded stabilisation area (called the clean labour room nursery extension) and a 2-bedded resuscitation-cum-stabilisation area for infected mothers (called the septic labour room nursery).

Intensive care facilities available are as follows:

Monitoring and Therapeutics

• Incubators- single and double walled
• Open Care Radiant Warmers
• Resuscitation trolleys
• Syringe Infusion Pumps
• Total parenteral nutrition
• Mechanical Infant resuscitators
• Blood warmers
• Multichannel vital signs monitors including invasive hemodynamic monitoring
• Portable vital signs monitors
• Phototherapy equipment, including LED
• Flux meters
• Bili-blankets
• Ventilators with all conventional modes and High Frequency
• Nitric oxide delivery systems
• CPAP delivery systems
• Cold light transilluminators
• FiO2 monitors
• Air oxygen blenders
• Low flow meters
• Defibrillators
• Laminar flow
• Breast pumps
• Weighing scales for babies and nappies
• Whole-body cooling devices and cerebral function monitors (in pipeline)

Diagnostics

• Doppler ultrasound and echocardiography
• Portable ultrasound
• Multimodality electrophysiology- including BERA
• ABER
• Oto-acoustic emission
• Transcutaneous bilirubinometers
• Twin beam spectrometric bilirubinometers
• Arterial blood gas machine
• Microscope
• Microcentrifuge
• Cold light transilluminators
• ECG machines

Teaching

• Resuscitation manikins
• High-fidelity computer-based simulator (in pipeline)