Newborn Unit
What does this specialty do?
The Neonatal Unit offers specialized care to newborns from birth, integrating intensive and intermediate care. It features a modern infrastructure with 41 cubicles (30 for intensive care and 11 for intermediate care), including negative pressure spaces for respiratory isolation. It provides compassionate care, supported by advanced technology and a highly trained interdisciplinary team, ensuring the safety, well-being, and support of the newborn and their family.
Diseases or conditions that it treats
- Prematurity
- Low birth weight
- Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
- Respiratory disorders in newborns
- Congenital malformations
- Surgical pathologies of the newborn
- neonatal infections
- Perinatal asphyxia
- Neurological disorders of the neonatal period
- Disorders requiring therapeutic hypothermia
- Cases requiring neonatal ECMO support
Procedures and treatments
- Continuous cardiopulmonary monitoring
- Conventional mechanical ventilation
- High-frequency ventilation
- Neurally assisted ventilation
- Administration of inhaled nitric oxide
- Therapeutic hypothermia with body temperature control
- Neonatal ECMO support
- Use of state-of-the-art incubators
- Tables and radiant heat systems
- Neonatal transport incubator
- Specialized nutritional support and breast milk expression
- Program Contacto Canguro (hospital and outpatient phases)
- 24-hour permanent pediatric medical consultation
Subspecialties
- All pediatric subspecialties in care
- Pediatric surgical subspecialties
- Specialized nursing in neonatology
- Breastfeeding counseling
Schedule an appointment
Request your appointment with the specialists in the Newborn Unit.
Contact
Call us: (+57) 602 331 9090
