Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

The care processes of babies requiring close follow-up and treatment during the neonatal period are carried out in intensive care units with special equipment and an expert team. In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Yeditepe University Hospitals, the treatment and care processes of babies are continued 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, utilizing current technological facilities. The neonatal intensive care team, consisting of expert physicians and nurses, adopts a multidisciplinary approach, with the participation of physicians from different specialties when necessary.

What Is the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?

These are special units where premature babies and newborns born at term but with various health problems are closely followed up, and where treatment and care services are carried out safely.

What Services Are Provided in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?

In our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, current technological equipment such as incubators, open beds, respiratory support devices, monitors, medication pumps, central gas and oxygen systems, and uninterruptible power supplies are used.
The neonatal intensive care team consists of physicians and nurses specialized in neonatal intensive care. Physicians from other specialties are also involved in evaluating patients' critical conditions and regulating their treatments, and a multidisciplinary approach is followed.
In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, continuous treatment and care services are provided 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Instant changes in the baby are monitored with advanced devices, and necessary interventions are performed and recorded as quickly as possible.