State-of-the-art diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care for extremely premature and medically fragile neonates
Our specialized clinical, medical, and consultative services include:
- Consultations before birth with families whose pregnancy has been complicated by a diagnosis of birth defects, multiple gestation or probable preterm delivery down to 22 weeks gestational age
- Consultative and management services with obstetrical and perinatal colleagues
- Telephone consultations with other physicians
- Attendance at medium to high-risk deliveries
- Inhaled nitric oxide therapy
- Newborn care for at-risk and ill babies
- Conventional and high-frequency ventilator support
- Mild systemic hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
- Long-term pulmonary care
In addition, MN Neonatal Physicians works in collaboration with many subspecialty medical services including:
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Genetics
- Hematology/Oncology
- Infectious Disease/Immunology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- Otolaryngology
- Palliative Care
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Pulmonology
- Surgery
- Urology
Collaborative care with support staff including:
- Chaplaincy
- Discharge Coordination
- Ethics
- Lactation
- Nursing
- Nutrition
- Occupational Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Social Work