Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
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Having a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is an emotional rollercoaster for any parent. But having a team of pediatric neonatology specialists who provide cutting-edge technology with sensitive, healing hands can help a parent get through this chapter with a little more ease.
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Services & Treatments
Babies born within the Mountain West's five-state region with severe, life-threatening conditions are treated by our team of pediatric neonatology specialists. Babies we treat receive:
- medical and surgical interventions for serious congenital birth defects, such as defects of the heart, brain, and internal organs, and
- infant treatment for sepsis, pulmonary hypertension, and prematurity with additional complications.
We support infants through their life-threatening conditions and provide:
- high frequency jet ventilation, nitric oxide, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (a device which circulates and oxygenates blood to allow the infant's heart or lungs to heal),
- cerebral/regional oximetry to monitor perfusion of specific organs, and
- total body cooling for brain injury.
We also treat premature babies and babies who have low birth weight.
Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
A Relationship Created for the Best Pediatric Care
For pediatric specialty care, Intermountain Children's Health is affiliated with University of Utah Health. U of U Health physicians see patients at Primary Children's Hospital on campus, Lehi Primary Children's, and other locations throughout the Salt Lake City valley.
It's a shared mission of providing health care, education, and research. It comes to life through collaboration on clinical care, research, and educational programs.
Primary Children's Hospital operates as the main pediatric facility for the U of U Health system, providing care in more than 60 medical and surgical specialties such as surgery, oncology, cardiology, orthopedics, and others. Most of the providers at Primary Children's Hospital are faculty members at U of U Health.
This partnership delivers care to advance pediatric medicine while educating future generations of health care professionals.