Neonatology

Emirates Specialty Hospital has level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

At Emirates Specialty Hospital we employ the latest medical techniques and technology to give the best possible care to every baby.

We have a team of consultant Neonatologist with 20 years of experience, six specialists well trained and experienced and dedicated nurses with tender hearts and gentle hands.

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The NICU is equipped with latest high tech gadgets meeting world standards. The facilities provided here are not only to take care of all kind of medical ailment, which a neonate can have, but to provide developmental care to minimize the stress of the NICU environment and enhance their physiological stability, protect their sleep rhythms and promote their growth and maturation. We make parents feel like parents. Antenatal consultations are provided in the Feto-Maternal Medicine and Labor Suite. We believe in family centered care where parents and family is involved in the care of the neonate. Special attention is given to bonding between the existing family and their new premature or sick baby. Kangaroo care is a unique way to promote bonding; we give both mum and dad the opportunity to hold their baby ‘skin-to-skin’ with the assistance of a specially trained nurse as soon as their baby’s condition is stable enough. We want to achieve model of excellence in health care for women and children in the region.

The dedicated team meets frequently to discuss each baby’s needs while they’re with us and at the time of discharge the various members of our team will help you with all the details, including transport to a hospital near you if your baby isn’t ready to go home, follow-up appointments, insurance, home care help, special equipment for your home and information on how to handle virtually all eventualities.

We are able to take care of babies with following problems:

1. Extreme prematurity as low as 23 week (Special delivery room management, gentle ventilation, Total parenteral nutrition, early feeding, kangaroo mother care, USG brain and functional echo)
2. Birth asphyxia (whole body cooling and CFM monitor)
3. Congenital Pneumonia (invasive and non invasive ventilation)
4. Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension (High frequency ventilation and NO)
5. Pneumothorax (chest tube insertion)
6. Sepsis
7. Intra uterine infections
8. Meningitis (lumbar puncture and USG brain)
9. Venticulitis (ventricular tap)
10. Shock (arterial catherization and invasive BP monitoring)
11. Cardiac conditions (cardiac screening, Echocardiography, PG drip, everything other than cardiac surgery)
12. In born errors of metabolism (metabolic work up and management)
13. Seizures (CFM monitor)
14. Jaundice (phototherapy and exchange transfusion)
15. Anemia
16. Polycythemia (partial exchange transfusion)
17. Intra uterine growth retardation
18. Congenital malformation

All NICU graduates are followed in the clinic for up to 2-years of age. These follow-up sessions involve evaluation of the infants’ growth, nutrition, immunization, and neurological status. A trained Ophthalmologist conducts ophthalmologic examination of all VLBW infants and other selected infants during the hospital stay.

All infants are examined at their mother’s bedside and counseling regarding breast feeding and other issues is done. All neonates undergo cardiac screening test to exclude major congenital heart disease so as to pick them early and treat them at appropriate time to avoid later emergencies. All infants are covered under the newborn screening program, which tests for 45 inborn errors of metabolism and endocrine conditions. A universal hearing screen is also performed for all newborns during the hospital stay.