NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (NICU)

KD Hospital is having “state of the art” level III NICU set up, with attached perinatal centre including foetal medicine & high risk obstetrics & IVF under one roof.

Antenatal Counselling and Intervention:
For high risk pregnancies and expected premature babies, prior in-detail counselling by Neonatal Intensivist for planning medical and surgical care for neonates is provided at Kusum Dhirajlal Hospital.

Our facilities at NICU include:

• In-utero transfer for high risk obstetric patients
• 24x7 consultant presence on site
• Conventional ventilator, high frequency ventilators, and inhaled nitric oxide therapy
• Non-invasive ventilator facilities, like Bubble- CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), Airvo 2
• Central O2, compressed air system, & central suction system
• Continuous haemodynamic monitoring; multipara monitor
• In house arterial-blood gas (ABG), lab, and radiological facilities

Point of care:

• Dedicated neonatal probes for echocardiography (ECHO) & neurosonogram of newborn babies
• Bedside electroencephalogram (EEG) facility
• Neonatal cooling facility (Meera cradle) for newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
• Laminar flow facilities for total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and intravenous (IV) preparation
• In house otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
• Screening and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
• Early stimulation therapy in NICU

PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (PICU)

6 bedded multidisciplinary PICU

General Paediatrics:

• Children friendly waiting area
• Vaccination clinic
• Paediatric asthma clinic
• Paediatric epilepsy clinic
• Adolescent clinic

Paediatric Trauma Care:
In house facilities for handing kids with multiple trauma by paediatric trauma team (intensivists, surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, rehabilitation specialists)

Neuro Critical Care:

• Bedside electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Advanced cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monitoring

Advanced Organ Support:
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT), sustained low-efficiency dialysis (SLED), plasmapheresis, and ischaemic heart disease (IHD)

Paediatric Surgeries:
State-of-art facilities to carry out and manage all kinds of complex neonatal and paediatric surgeries.