Intensive Care for Children


Unit newborn provide birth experts around the clock to care for sick newborn babies born prematurely or any preterm or premature. If your baby is in the neonatal unit at the hospital, you are not alone. Spend between 6 and 10 percent of newborns some time there. However, most parents do not expect the presence of their child in the neonatal unit, and comes as a real shock to them. Different levels of care are available in the neonatal unit. According to your child's needs, it would be in one of these three units:

- ICU (intensive care for newborns or NICU): critical situations.
- Intensive care (HD): For children who are not considered a critical condition, but they still need to intensive care.
- Special Care (SC): For children who are fine and walks the way in the growth and development after a previous premature birth, or those who get better after undergoing more complexity for the treatment ofً.

Why my child needs to be present where :-


Like all newborns, premature infants with basic needs, and provide them with a warm fluids and nutrients. Premature babies need additional help. For example, it is difficult for them to maintain the warmth of their bodies because they did not grow and evolve fully yet, and they can not regulate their body temperature. It may help them on that particular small bed-called incubator. Be able to have children who are too small or how big they are weak or immature fluids and a special blend of nutrition through the serum bag, or you may need a tube connects milk to their stomachs. Premature infants also needs to control and additional follow-up and treatment and care because their bodies failed to grow and develop fully after. They are not immune and can be exposed to serious health problems. Some of the common health problems associated with premature birth Next:
( Breathing problems- Bleeding in the brain- heart diseases- Disorders of the intestines and digestive system- Problems in the eyes- Icterus- Blood or anemia poverty- Inflammation or infection -)

Who will take care of my child in the unit?


In the neonatal unit, Maher from various medical specialties team will child care. It may be among those who deal with them: Staff nurses and specialists in the care of newborn Large nurses responsible for the unit (or nurse director of the unit) Consultant in pediatrics or specialist in the treatment of newborns (leading child care process) Congress specialists Physicians, residents Other doctors specialize, such as surgeons Physical therapy to help your child development specialist X-imaging specialist who conduct X-ray imaging and ultrasound Dietitian who provide advice and guidance with regard to nutrition Pharmacists Nursery nurses (after the improvement of the situation of the baby).

Doctors intensive care for children :-


Dr- mostafa ezzat--Consultant and head of the department of children
Dr- Hany gafar--Consultant Pediatrician
Dr- Nabil abdelsalam--Specialist Children
Dr- sherien abelsamie--Specialist Children
Dr- magdi fathy--Specialist Children