Neonatology
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Neonatology Unit)
Our hospital provides the necessary support for all newborn babies in need of intensive care. In light of current medical knowledge and with modern medical equipment, we ensure that babies are reunited with their families in the shortest possible time, while also providing the necessary resources for family education and information. Our unit is designed to serve the most critically ill newborns requiring advanced care, and intensive care services are provided by one associate professor and one specialist neonatologist.
Our unit is organized into three separate sections: the advanced premature and critically ill term newborn section (15 incubators), the isolation section for patients referred from other centers and for septic patients (8 rooms), and the section for more stable babies whose conditions are under control (15 incubators). The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is equipped with 38 incubators, 22 mechanical ventilators, 38 monitors, 12 phototherapy devices, a blood gas analyzer, and a TPN (total parenteral nutrition) preparation unit.
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit provides advanced care for babies born as early as the 22nd week of gestation, babies with respiratory distress, babies who have inhaled meconium in the womb, and those at high risk due to brain or other organ damage resulting from difficult deliveries.
Within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the following services are provided: respiratory support (ventilator therapy), exchange transfusion, phototherapy (light therapy), percutaneous catheterization (placing a fine catheter extending to the heart through thin veins in the arms or legs), total parenteral nutrition (complete intravenous feeding), chest tube insertion (treatment of air leaks in the lungs), bedside echocardiography (ECHO – heart ultrasound), bedside ultrasound (USG – for the evaluation of the brain and other internal organs), and retinopathy examinations (eye examinations for premature babies). The unit also receives support from Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Neurology, and Pediatric Cardiology specialists.
In our high-risk premature outpatient clinic, problematic newborns discharged from our unit are followed up.
