Pediatric Neonatology
The Neonatology department is a sub-branch of the Pediatrics department that deals with all high-risk babies after birth, such as newborns and premature babies.
In our Neonatology Department, the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of sick newborns and premature babies within the first month of life are carried out by admitting them to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The most frequently monitored conditions are issues related to prematurity, immaturity, multiple pregnancies, infants with intrauterine growth restriction, neonatal jaundice, infectious diseases of the newborn, and babies who have undergone surgical procedures and require monitoring. Our hospital's neonatal intensive care unit has 37 incubators.
In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, in addition to drug therapies, many interventional procedures and treatments are performed for the diagnosis and treatment of newborn diseases. The most important of these are phototherapy and exchange transfusion for the treatment of neonatal jaundice, the use of mechanical ventilators for respiratory diseases, and performing "bedside" cranial ultrasonography for premature babies and echocardiography for newborns with heart disease. In addition, our patients' X-ray radiographs are also taken at the bedside.
All treatments required by neonatal intensive care, such as respiratory support therapies (oxygen support, basic and advanced mechanical ventilation), phototherapy, exchange transfusion, total body cooling, inhaled nitric oxide therapy, and all kinds of cardiorespiratory monitoring, ultrasonography, echocardiography, EEG monitoring, ophthalmological and audiological follow-up, physical therapy and rehabilitation follow-up, and neurological follow-up are performed. In addition, the follow-up of all newborns in the preoperative and postoperative periods can also be done.
Our main medical support devices that enable the application of these treatments are as follows:
- Conventional and advanced mechanical ventilators
- Phototherapy devices (with LED technology)
- Total body cooling device
- Inhaled nitric oxide device
- Cerebral function monitor
- Incubators
- Open beds
- Transport incubators
- Non-invasive and invasive monitors
