What is a Neonatologist? |PAEDIATRICS & NEONATOLOGY|

A neonatologist specializes in caring for premature babies and full-term newborn babies with injuries, illness, or birth defects. Neonatologists typically work in hospital neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and collaborate with other healthcare providers, including obstetrician-gynecologists, pediatricians, pediatric surgeons, nurses, nutritionists, and social workers.

A neonatologist typically:

• Examines the newborn baby and evaluates his or her medical history including the mom’s medical history before and during pregnancy
• Provides primary healthcare services and immunizations in the hospital
• Orders and interprets laboratory and imaging tests
• Diagnoses and treats diseases and conditions affecting a newborn baby’s health
• Assesses growth and development
• Prescribes medications
• Educates the baby’s parents or caretakers about wellness and disease prevention
• Consults with other members of the patient’s medical and team
• Provides ongoing neonatal care in the hospital NICU
• Neonatologists may also be known by the following names: baby doctor, newborn pediatrician, newborn doctor, newborn intensive care doctor, and NICU doctor.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at AMRI Hospital

AMRI Neonatal facility with 26 beds is the largest in Eastern India’s private sector hospitals, with full range of acute care facility that offers unique therapies & services. A few salient features about our NICU include:

• Advanced Neonatal therapies like HFOV,Whole body cooling for HIE
• Dedicated Neonatal Emergency Transport Services
• Latest open care systems & incubators (GE Giraffe Omnibed)
• Neonatal specific Ventilators
• ABPM (Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring)
• Comprehensive Care of Extremely Preterm (less than 28 weeks & less than 1000 gm) & critically ill babies.
• 24 hrs Emergency Care
• Isolation unit for potentially septic neonates
• Laminar Flow to prepare TPN
• Cerebral Function Monitors (CFM)

For more info visit here :  https://www.amrihospitals.in/specialty/paediatrics-neonatology?q=node/40&show=1