neonatal intensive care
Newborn critical unit
Neonatal intensive care is specialized medical treatment for newborn infants who are critically ill, premature, or have serious health complications.
A neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) provides round-the-clock monitoring, ventilators, incubators, and other life-support equipment: The twins spent their first six weeks in neonatal intensive care.
- premature birthDelivery before 37 weeks
- low birth weightNeonate under 2500 grams
- ventilatorMechanical breathing apparatus
- oxygen maskFace-worn breathing apparatus
- incubatorControlled warming enclosure
neonatologist · NICU nurse · intubation · nurse · beeping · heart monitor · social worker · developmental milestones · skin to skin · surfactant therapy · pulse oximeter · jaundice · cry · blood transfusion · hypoglycemia · phototherapy · respiratory therapist · monitor
- Twin Complicationsconjoined twins, parasitic twin, mirror twins, selective reduction, chimera
neonatal intensive carehome birth
Childbirth at residence
home care · birthing center · natural childbirth · well-child visit · kangaroo care
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