Child specialist at Yashoda Hospital, Ghaziabad

Babies require specialized care if they are born with a birth defect, or if they are born before their due date. The neonatology and neonatal intensive care unit at Yashoda Hospital offers a wide range of services for complex medical and surgical neonatal problems.

Our team of Neonatologists, Neonatal Nurses, and Allied Health Specialists follow a multidisciplinary approach to provide complete medical care to a patient. This is done with the full cooperation of many other teams and departments within the hospital.

Our expert pediatricians can solve most health problems of newborns, and are trained specifically to handle the most complex and high-risk situations.

Our hospital provides 3 separate areas for babies who require special care including:

• We offer a Level III NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit).
• Step down nursery for unborn babies
• An isolation area

The babies who are born in the hospital are kept under the care of a Consultant Neonatologist and qualified trained Resident Paediatrics doctors. We possess a state-of-the-art Foetal and Paediatrics Cardiology Department where Foetal Echocardiography is performed for high-risk pregnancies.

At Yashoda Hospital, we continue to encourage mothers to continue the process of bonding with their children even when placed in the NICU.

During the antenatal period, our specialized doctors evaluate and look for any cardiac problems that could have a major impact on the management of the baby.

Meaning of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Newborn babies who need the aid and support of intensive medical care are often put in a special isolated area which is called the neonatal intensive care unit. To provide special care for the tiniest of patients, we have advanced NICU technology and trained healthcare professionals who are experts in managing sick children

Sometimes, the NICU is also used for those patients who are not sick but need specialized nursing care. We have specialized neonatologists, Neonatal Nurses, and Allied Health Specialists that will provide medical care for the small children in the NICU.

We understand that giving birth to a baby can be overwhelming. Our doctors will counsel you about some of the procedures that may be needed for the care of your baby.

Services provided at the Neonatal Surgery and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

• 24*7 neonatal support
• Radiant warmers and incubators
• A blended mixture of pure oxygen and air (or other gases) in appropriate ratios
• Bedslide screening
• Neonatal ventilator
• Multi-monitor
• Invasive blood pressure monitoring
• LED
• Bedside electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Bedside video EEG monitoring
• Bedside echocardiography
• Bedside ultrasonography
• Bedside screening
• Treatment for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
• Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) ligation facility
• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is used for Lung and Heart Support
• Neonatal flexible bronchoscopy
• Transport an incubator and a ventilator
• 24×7 Transport services (air and road transport services)

The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Yashoda Hospital provides a wide range of facilities to cater to all the diverse needs of children. We provide 24/7 in-house specialised emergency care for critically ill children.

Our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit offers an Extracorporeal Life Support Program for children who require life-sustaining heart and lung support. We also provide comprehensive medical care for Bone Marrow / Organ Transplant patients.

The latest treatment modalities available in the Unit include Extracorporeal Life Support (Neonatal, Paediatric, and Cardiac ECMO), Nitric Oxide Therapy, high-frequency Ventilation, Non-invasive Ventilation, Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs), Plasmapheresis and CRRT modalities.

Children’s Health

The primary concern of a parent is their children’s well-being and they want to provide the best for them in every way possible, even if they have to stretch beyond their limits. A child’s health includes physical, mental, and social well-being.

Most parents know the basics of keeping children healthy, like offering them healthy foods, making sure they get enough sleep and exercise, and ensuring their safety.

It is also important for children to get regular check-ups with their healthcare providers. These visits are a chance to check your child’s development. They are also a good time to catch or prevent problems.

Ways to provide health and well-being habits to children:

1. A balanced diet, physical activity, and sleep

• Pay attention to the kind of food you buy.
• Serve a variety of healthy foods.
• Limit junk food and keep fresh fruits and vegetables available.
  These are healthy snacks and meals. Low-fat foods may contain unhealthy items, such as added sugar.
• Eat meals and snacks together as a family, at the table, and not in front of the television.
• Give your children plenty of water and milk to drink. Limit or avoid sweetened and regular-calorie drinks. These include fruit juice, soft drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, sweetened or flavoured milk, and sweetened iced tea.
• Monitor your children’s activities. They should have no more than 2 hours of screen time per day.
• Screen time includes television, computer, tablet, and video games. As part of screen time, you should set time limits on smartphones. Promote physical activity instead.
• Make physical activity part of your family’s routine. Take a walk, visit the community pool, or go on a bike ride.
• Encourage your kids to try group activities, such as team sports or martial arts. These can help a child’s growth and self-esteem. Find other aerobic activities to add to your children’s day.

2. Tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs

• Kids may become curious about drugs at a young age. Some children try tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs by the time they are in middle school. Studies show that kids are less likely to use them if you talk to them early.
• Make it known that it’s not okay or allowed to smoke cigarettes, use e-cigarettes, chew tobacco, drink alcohol, or use drugs. Set clear consequences if they break these rules.
• Explain why these substances are harmful. Encourage your children to ask questions. A true story may get their attention more than facts and statistics alone. Give real-life examples of people who have had terrible things happen from using alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs.
• TV, the internet, and social media platforms. Don’t allow your child to have a TV, computer, laptop, tablet, or mobile phone in his or her bedroom.
• Don’t allow your child to change his or her electronic devices in the bedroom at night.
• Practice what you preach. If you don’t want your child tied to his or her electronics nonstop, then you should put yours away, too. As children imitate their parents, they follow what their elders do.
• Require more physical activity. Help your child remember how pleasant it feels to run, jump, and play outdoors. Recommend activities that match your child’s interests. For example, if your child likes hidden treasure computer games, develop an outdoor treasure hunt. The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) recommends children get 30 to 60 minutes of physical activity each day.
• Make family mealtime a screen-free time. This encourages lively dinnertime conversation that can expand your child’s interests.
• It’s also important to be aware children about the dangers of being on social media. They will be attracted to talk to others and share their information with peers, so proper teaching should be given about how the given information could be misused.

3. Mental health of children

• It’s important to regularly talk with your teens. It could easily be done by showing care. These simple things could be done:
• Let them know you are there for them.
• Always listen. Remain quiet so they feel like they are being heard.
• Avoid bombarding them with questions and lectures after listening.
• Help your teen create a healthy lifestyle with regular sleep, a balanced diet, and exercise.
• Gently remind your teen to take his or her medicine.
• Look for signs that his or her depression is getting worse.
• Talk to your teen about substance abuse (alcohol and drugs). These substances make depression worse.
• Keep your house safe for your teen by eliminating alcohol, removing guns and other weapons, and keeping prescription medicines locked up.

In most cases, parents are aware of the basic health conditions of their children, but if they notice something unusual about the child’s health or activities, they should contact a child specialist so that the problem is prevented from spreading further and early treatment could be given.

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