Neonatology - Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU):
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The Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides highly specialized intensive care to critically ill newborns.

Services:
The NICU provides care to infants who require intensive multidisciplinary and specialist care, and monitoring or support of vital functions beyond that available in the general pediatric unit or community hospital. NICU services include:

• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
• Neurosurgery, Cardiac Surgery, ENT Surgery, & General Surgery
• Cerebral Cooling (for newborns with hypoxic brain injury)
• Intravenous Therapy
• Continuous Neurodynamic Monitoring
• ECMO/Nitric Oxide
• Genetic Workup
• Transport
• Ventilation (Regular, HFOV, Jet)
• Intensive Care Nursery Databases
• Neonatal Follow-Up Clinic

The Newborn Intensive Care Nursery is a 47-bed, family-centered, regional referral center for neonatal intensive care. Board certified neonatologists are in the hospital 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Parents are welcome to visit any time.

<Photo left of an infant in the Cool-Cap, a new device designed to reduce the effects of brain damage. Children’s Hospital’s Intensive Care Nursery uses the cap to reduce mortality and severe neurodevelopmental disability in term infants who experienced oxygen deprivation or decreased blood flow to the brain at birth.

Care in the nursery is provided by a multidisciplnary team including:

• Neonatologists
• Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (NNPs)
• Nurses
• Respiratory Therapists
• Social Workers
• Developmental Specialists.

This multidisciplinary medical team works closely with the entire range of pediatric sub-specialty services including Cardiology, Infectious Disease, Endocrinology, Genetics, Hematology, Pulmonology, Neurology, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Audiology. There is always at least one neonatologist in the hospital to provide care to infants in the NICU.

Intensive Care Nursery Databases
Children’s ICN maintains several highly sophisticated databases to help manage patients. These databases help us follow the progress of infants who have been admitted to the nursery. They include information on important aspects of neonate care, such as infections and nutrition analysis.

Neonatal Follow-Up Clinic
Some infants requiring intensive care as newborns may be at risk for developmental and neurological problems as they get older. The Neonatal Follow-up Clinic helps these babies and their families.

Admissions:
Infants are admitted to the NICU from hospitals and pediatric offices throughout California, as well as from the Children’s Emergency Department and Pediatric ICU. To arrange the admission of an infant to the NICU, call the phone number below to be connected to a neonatologist.

If you are the expectant parent of a baby who might be admitted to the Children’s NICU, please feel free to call the number below to speak with a neonatologist and to arrange a tour of the NICU.

Hours:
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
We welcome parents of patients to visit any time.

Location:
Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
Main Hospital - 3rd Floor
747 52nd Street Oakland, CA 94609

Fax: 510  428-3542
(:    510 428-3431