Neonatal Nursing and Maternal Healthcare

Neonatal Medicine

Neonatal medicine cares with the care of critically ill new born and premature infants. Neonatologists diagnose and treat new born with conditions like breathing disorders, infections, or birth defects; coordinate care and medically manage new-borns born prematurely, critically ill, or in need of surgery; stabilize and treat new born with any life-threatening medical problems; attend a delivery after which the infant may require medical intervention; and consult obstetricians, pediatricians, and family physicians about conditions affecting new born infants and caring for mothers who have high-risk pregnancies.

Neonatologists work mainly within the special care nurseries or new born medical care units of hospitals, primarily children's hospitals, university medical centers, and enormous community hospitals. additionally, a neonatologist may provide short-term care on an outpatient basis after the infant has been discharged from the unit.