High-Risk Newborns

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit {NICU}

For over 25 years, Scott & White has provided specialized care for sick newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

Out of 350 NICUs worldwide, the Children's Hospital at Scott & White ranks among the top in survival of these fragile newborns, some weighing less than one pound.

Scott & White is the only Level III Intensive Care Unit between Dallas and Austin.

Our team consists of six neonatologists, specially trained neonatal nurse practitioners and transport nurses, neonatal nurses, respiratory therapists and support staff.

Our NICU cares for up to 56 newborns whose care begins before they are born with our experienced obstetrical staff. We maintain our position at the leading edge in our specialty.

The care we provide includes:

• High frequency oscillatory ventilation
• High frequency jet ventilation
• High frequency ventilation with a flow interrupter
• Nitric oxide therapy for pulmonary hypertension
• Olympic Cool Cap System for brain cooling
• An EEG unit for brain monitoring
• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (heart-lung by-pass)
• Surgical services for sick newborns
• Developmental care for the newborn
• Three overnight rooms for parents to spend time learning to care for their newborn
• Isolation unit with negative flow to care for infants with infectious diseases
• TLC (tender loving care) from our staff for our tiny patients and their families

One of the keys to the higher survival rates at the Children's Hospital at Scott & White is involvement from the other pediatric subspecialties here such as pulmonologists, cardiologists, neurologists, nephrologists, endocrinologists, hematologist/ oncologists, gastroenterologists, infectious disease specialists, ophthalmologists, ENTs, surgeons, plastic surgeons, urologists and radiologists.

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