Paediatrics & Neonatology

Pediatrics

Pediatrics is a branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents.

Pediatricians

Pediatricians are doctors who manage the health of your child, including physical, behavior, and mental health issues. They’re trained to diagnose and treat childhood illnesses, from minor health problems to serious diseases.

Our Paediatrics Department

Our team of Pediatricians is having one Pediatrician and one PICU Intensivist who are highly qualified with postgraduate training in excellent and renowned teaching medical colleges and hospitals across India.

At Amritdhara My Hospital’s Pediatris department , we bring the same extraordinary dedication, skill and expertise of our adult care to children. But when a child is sick or injured, it’s not enough for a hospital to have the most qualified doctors and advanced technologies. It’s not enough to just have caring nurses and kind doctors in a kid-friendly, non-threatening environment. You need to have access to a team that works together flawlessly, with one goal in mind: healing children as quickly and happily as possible.

To take care of your child, our pediatrician will:

• Do physical exams
• Give your child vaccinations
• Make sure he/she meets milestones in growth, behavior, and skills
• Diagnose and treat your child’s illnesses, infections, injuries, and other health problems
• Give you information about your child’s health, safety, nutrition, and fitness needs
• Answer your questions about your little one’s growth and development
• Refer you to specialists if they think your child needs expert care

We have the facility of Advanced 15-bed Neonatal Intensive Care unit (NICU) equipped with Neonatal Incubators /Open warmers, Respiratory Support, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) or Mechanical Ventilation. Our Neonatology unit is also equipped with Phototherapy units ( LED Lights ).

Also we have highly equiped PICU ( Pediatric Intensive Care Unit ).A critical care physician is available 24 hours a day for consultation on the care of critically ill children. If referral to the PICU is appropriate for your child, the critical care staff will make arrangements to transport your child to the PICU.

Services

Main areas of Pediatric services we are providing are:

• General Paediatrics – a hospital role covering children from birth to the age of 16. Most pediatricians have this generalised role
• Neonatology – this role specialises in looking after newly born babies. It is usually based in an intensive care unit looking after premature babies or those with problems at birth
• Community Paediatrics – these doctors are based in the community and look after children with developmental, social or behavioural problems and those with a physical disability.
• Peditric Intensive Care – Equipped with advanced technology, our multidisciplinary team improves survival, speeds recovery, minimizes disability and relieves pain and suffering in a caring and respectful manner.

NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit): A neonatal intensive care unit, also known as an intensive care nursery, is an intensive care unit specializing in the care of ill or premature new-born infants. Neonatal refers to the first 28 days of life. New-born babies who need intensive medical care are often put in a special area of the hospital called the neonatal intensive care unit.
We are providing the NICU services with advanced technology and trained healthcare professionals to give special care to our tiniest patients. We have Advanced 15-bed Neonatal Intensive Care unit (NICU) equipped with Neonatal Incubators /Open warmers, Respiratory Support, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) or Mechanical Ventilation. Our Neonatology unit is also equipped with Phototherapy unit.

PICU – Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Amritdhara My Hospital is a multidisciplinary unit that provides care for infants, children and adolescents who become critically ill or injured.
The many physicians, nurses and allied medical care professionals who work in the PICU have the knowledge, skill and judgment to quickly assess and treat your child so he can achieve the best outcomes possible from critical illness or injury.
Equipped with advanced technology, our multidisciplinary team improves survival, speeds recovery, minimizes disability and relieves pain and suffering in a caring and respectful manner.
Conditions that commonly cause critical illness and injury include:
Severe infection
Poisoning
Drug overdose
Trauma
Extensive surgery
Congenital anomalies
Immunological disorders

Exchange Transfusion

Done in newborn, when Billirum is too High, that it will disturb the mental status of the child.

In this we remove the high Billirum content of blood from the baby (discarded) & exchanged it with fresh blood.

Dialysis

Child in chronic Renal Failure.

When Serum Urea & Serum Creatinine is too high. Not managed by Medical Tratment, we will remove extra Urea & Creatinine through the machine via catheter.

Ventilation

When the body is having Respiratory Distress not managed by medical treatment. This is a temporary support to the Respiration for the time acctual distress is managed.

Equipments in NICU

There are many pieces of medical equipment in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU). Depending upon the baby’s medical condition, the piece of equipment is required and used. The most common equipments are :

Equipments used for warm environment :

• An open bed with a radiant warmer is used.

Equipments to check vital signs  include :

• A sensor on the chest to measure heart rate and breathing rate using a cardiorespiratory monitor
• A sensor on the skin to measure temperature
• Cuff on the arm or leg to measure blood pressure
• Cuff on the hand or foot to measure the relative amount of oxygen in the blood

Equipments used for breathing :

• Extra oxygen delivered through a small tube in the nose or a mask
• Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
• Ventilators