Department of newborn

The specialists of the Department of Newborns are caring for the healthy and premature newborn, as well as for patients who need intensive care. The department is organized the joint stay of mother and newborns from the first minutes of life. It is also organized the training of mothers for skills of baby care and breastfeeding.

Caring for newborns provided by experienced, caring and skilled nurses, and newborns' health monitoring is carried by neonatologists. Before discharge from the department the mothers are instructed in detail regarding the peculiarities of newborn care at home, and skilled neonatologists always ready to answer any questions related to neonatal care.

The department has all the necessary equipment for newborn screening and provision of emergency aid:

• Incubators for the care of LBW and preterm infants
• Monitors Surveillance
• Modern phototherapy and heating
• Carefully observed the sanitary-epidemic norms.

The ICU has two ventilator, breathing system to support Bablle CPAP, a centralized oxygen supply, which provide treatment for newborns with respiratory failure, open CosyCot resuscitation system allows for intensive care in full.

In recent years the department also carries out the treatment of preterm infants with extremely low birth weight with the help of the Survanta drug, due to which many lives were saved in preterm infants. With the help of screening is carried out diagnosis of congenital hypothyroidism and phenylketonuria; direct ophthalmoscopy reveals retinopathy at an early stage in premature infants.

Modern diagnostic equipment of the department in conjunction with targeted etiopathogenetic and symptomatic therapy, as well as created all necessary conditions and facilities for the care of infants allows achievements of significant clinical results in the short term.

The department also has a laboratory equipped with modern equipment, which allows for a full examination of blood and other biological fluids. Updated incubators provides optimum thermal conditions for newborns with low birth weight and premature births.