Services - Neonatal Intensive Care services

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has a strength of 18 beds.

6 beds are exclusively for level III Care. This unit has got facilities to take care of very sick babies including extremely low birth weight and extremely premature babies.

This unit is managed by qualified in house Neonatologist DR. S. Sree Ram.

Performance

Total number admissions in NICU last year – 619
Table 1 Gestation wise survival


Gestation No. of babies
admitted
Survival Deaths Survival %
28 weeks 5 5 0 100
29 - 32 weeks 34 32 2@ 94
33 - 36 weeks 210 206 3# 98
≥ 37 weeks 370 366 5* 99
Total 619 310 10 98

 

* Cause of death: HIE III -1, MCKD with lung hypoplasia – 1, severe sepsis with ARF – 2, CHD – 1 # Cause of death:Hypernatremic dehydration (Na :200 )with ARF with congenital icthyosis -1, NEC -2, @ IVH grade III -1, complex cyanotic congential heart disease - 1


Weight (g) No. of babies
admitted
Survival Deaths Survival %
750 - 1000 4 4 0 100
1001 - 1500 46 44 2 96
1501 - 2000 132 128 3 97
2001 - 2500 236 236 0 100
> 2500     5 98
Total 619 310 10 98