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NICU
NICU (Neonate Intensive Care Unit) is the intensive care unit for newborn (neonatal) that
require special care such as low weight, respiratory function is less than
perfect, prematurely, have difficulty in giving birth, shows the sign in trouble the first few
days of life.
Room NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) and PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit) isth
e intensive care room for babies (up to age 28 days) and children
who need specialcare and treatment, in order to prevent and treat the onset of failure of vital
organs
Briefly some of the equipment that is in regular use at the NICU babies are treated in
the NICU :
a) Feeding tube
Often the baby in the NICU can't get the food they need through the
mouth directly, so the nurse will put up a small hose through the mouth up to
my stomach. As a way to enter breast milk or infant formula.
Function: for nutrition/food liquids through the granting of the mouth or the nose.
b) Infant warmers
This is the heated beds are there on top of it, so baby can escape
from hipotermiParents can touch the baby in the warmers, which certainly spoke first to
the nurse.
Function: to warm the baby with the desired temperature.
c) Incubator
A small flexible catheter that is inserted into the blood vessels are veins. Almost
allbabies treated in the NICU for the needs of diinfus fluids and drugs, usually in thearms
or legs.
Function: to set the amount of fluid infusion which is inserted into the
the circulation of the blood flow of the patients directly through the vein
e) Monitor
The baby is in the NICU is connected to the monitor so the NICU staff will always
know their vital signs. In one monitor can be recorded some vital signs, includingpulse,
breathing, blood pressure, temperature and SpO2 (oxygen content in the blood).
Functions: to monitor the patient's vital sign in the form of a heartbeat,
pulse, blood pressure, temperature, pulse form the heart directlyshots.
f) Blue Light Therapy
Light therapy used for babies who are bilirubinnya levels are higher
than normal,usually used on top of a baby with a baby naked and her eyes closed with
a specialeye protection, length of therapy depends on the light levels of bilirubin,
usuallyexamined after 24 hours of usage.
Function : for babies that her bilirubin levels are higher than normal.
g) Bubble CPAP
Tools to breathe by using small kanul into baby's nostrils, it is typically used for
infantswho often forget to breath (apnoe).
Function: help your breath by using small canul into the baby's nostril
h) Ventilator
The breath machine used for babies who have a heavy breath disorders, it
is using thesmall hose through the nose or mouth until to the lung.
Function: Tools to control, respiratory assist lung function or take over patients
B. PICU
1. Vital Sign Monitor
3. Infant Incubator
5. Infusion pump
C. ICCU
1. DC Shock
2. Syringe driver
A syringe driver or syringe pump is a small infusion pump (some include infuse and withdraw
capability), used to gradually administer small amounts of fluid (with or without medication) to a
patient or for use in chemical and biomedical research.
3. Sphygmomanometer
4. The Ventilator
A ventilator uses pressure to blow air or a mixture of gases (like oxygen and air) into
the lungs.
5. ECG
6. Bedside Monitor
The patient has different types of sensing devices attached to their body,
(e.g. ECG dots or oxygen saturation probe ) which are connected to the monitor by
wires (called leads). The sensing devices send electronic signals through the leads
to the monitor, which then displays the signals. The monitor has alarms, which can
signal to the staff if a body function needs attention, however sometimes patient
movement alone can cause the alarms to go off.