The Department of Paediatrics & Neonatology at Neotia Bhagirathi Woman and Child Care Centre, Guwahati, has carved out a niche for itself since its inception.
The department is providing excellent care at par with international standards in a wide range of complicated cases, some of which have been referred from far-flung areas.
The department has round-the-clock coverage of experienced resident medical officers, senior paediatricians and paramedical staff to tackle any high-risk case.
The department is equipped with critical care resuscitation trolley, suction apparatus, centralised oxygen supply, intubation sets, emergency drugs, nebulizers, cardiac monitor, pulse oximeter and infusion pump.
The Paediatric ward is brightly coloured with a view to make the children feel happy. There is also a library within the ward from where children can take books or their parents can read out to them. There is also a canvas for admitted children so that they can paint and put up their paintings for display. Such activities entertain children while they undergo treatment and they do not feel the discomfort of staying away from home.
Department of NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) and SCBU (Special Care Baby Unit)
New parents eagerly look forward to bringing their baby home, so it can be frightening if the newborn needs to be admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Babies from birth to 30 days are admitted to the NICU if they are born prematurely or they show signs of a problem in the first few days of life or there is any difficulty during the delivery.
The department provides and coordinates medical care including High Frequency Ventilation and a full range of neonatal subspeciality services for high-risk newborns.
The NICU at NBWCCC is a Level III (tertiary) provider of newborn services, offering various levels of care covering:
- Intensive
- Intermediate
- Isolation
- Continuing Care
In addition to conventional aspects of newborn Intensive care, other capabilities include:
- Bedside pulmonary function testing
- High frequency oscillatory ventilation
- Parent liaison services in a compassionate and developmental environment
- 24-hour in-house coverage by experienced and certified neonatologists
Babies are admitted to NICU post-delivery in the following instances:
- Prematurely born
- Low birth weight
- Bleeding in the brain
- Gut and digestive disorders
- Eye problems
- Jaundice
- Anaemia
- Infections
- Any congenital anomaly
The NICU at NBWCCC is equipped with warmer and air conditioners to maintain a thermoneutral environment and all the beds at NICU are supported with individual servo-controlled radiant warmers. The NICU has neonatal trolleys, ventilators, vital signs monitor, blood saturation monitors, phototherapy units, centralised oxygen supply, pulse oximeter, apnea monitor, cardiac monitor, CPAP, syringe pumps and infusion pumps.
The phototherapy effectively treats babies born with jaundice. At NBWCCC we use high-efficiency phototherapy units to treat jaundice in newborns. In addition to this, there is a facility for exchange transfusion for even more serious jaundice in babies.
We have ventilators in 1:1 ratio, Dräger Babylog 8000 plus at NICU, which are most suitable for premature babies who require ventilator care, surfactant therapy as required in critical cases supplemented with availability of round-the-clock portable X-ray facility.
All of these have helped improve the survival rate of pre-term babies with respiratory problems.
Our excellent team of highly trained nursing staff and post graduate qualified doctors provide evidence-based care to our babies including critical procedures such as abdominal poracentesis, chest tube drainage, central line insertion, umbilical arterial and venous catheterisation as and when required.
At NBWCCC, we have specially skilled and trained nursing staff in the ratio of 1:1 who provide round-the-clock-care to these critical newborns.
The department is supported round-the-clock by Postgraduate Medical Officers who extend assistance to the consultants. The nursing staff is specifically trained to handle babies in this department and each one of them is selected after passing through a stringent selection process.
NBWCCC runs the Neonatal Programme by which a transport team comprising of a neonatologist and a NICU registered nurse retrieves a baby born outside and brings it to the NICU for intensive care.
Key features:
- Continuous monitoring with sophisticated multi-parameter monitors
- Neonatal incubators (both open and closed care systems)
- Sophisticated high-frequency neonatal ventilators
- CPAP: Dedicated Nasal CP AP drivers
- Neonatal Emergency Transport System
- Blood gas analyser to assist in ventilator management
- Digital syringe and Infusion pumps
- Piped medical gases and Suction Transport Incubator
The NICU is complemented by a Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) where relatively well babies are admitted. The SCBU has precision infant warmers, photo therapy equipment, accurate fluid and oxygen delivery systems.
Paediatric Specialities at NBWCCC Guwahati include the following:
- Clinical Psychology
- Endocrinology
- Surgery
- Haematology
- Neonatology Chest Care Cardiology
- Neurology
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Parenting Class
- Counselling