Name of the Department: Neonatal Special Care
Latin name: NICU
Local telephone:
direct phone:
Head of the Department: Dr. Masoud Dehdashtian
Head of department: Mrs. Sudabah Abdi
Number of beds: 8

Department position

The NICU department is located on the first floor, the north side of Aria Hospital, and has suitable physical conditions and space.

Inpatient services:

The NICU department is one of the important and supporting departments of the birthing block in hospital centers, which creates a safe environment for the birth of babies, especially babies who need respiratory care, and makes it possible to provide services and appropriate treatment measures.
Babies with respiratory problems, congenital abnormalities, heart problems, low birth weight, asphyxia before, during and after birth, prematurity, multiple births, high birth weight, history of diabetes, high blood pressure, and internal problems of the mother that may be related to Affected babies are accepted in this department. In addition, the hospital has the capacity to accept babies who need the NICU from other hospitals.
Among the services provided in this department are phototherapy, oxygen therapy, placing the baby under a respirator, monitoring, blood exchange and blood transfusion.
The following conditions increase the probability of admission to the NICU. Although each baby should be carefully examined by a doctor.

Conditions of the baby :

  • Birth in pregnancy less than 37 or more than 42 weeks
  • Weight less than 2.5 or more than 4 kg
  • Being small for gestational age
  • Injuries during childbirth
  • Respiratory problems such as rapid breathing, stretching of the intercostal space inward, exhalation whine and bruising of the baby
  • Infections
  • convulsions
  • hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
  • Not being able to drink milk and needing liquid therapy
  • The need for special treatment or other methods such as blood transfusions

Department amenities

From the characteristics of the inpatient department, we can mention the presence of specialist and subspecialist doctors for children and babies, experienced and caring staff, suitable and calm physical environment.
The intensive care unit of the NICU includes 5 beds. Each bed is equipped with a baby incubator, phototherapy, monitoring, baby ventilator and CPAP. Also, the possibility of performing ultrasound radiology and portable echocardiography on the patient’s bed is also a special feature of this department.

Above the head of each patient’s bed is a console and each console includes an oxygen inlet, suction and central compressed air.

Mother’s room : One of the exceptional characteristics of the NICU in this center is the presence of the mother’s room, which is located next to the NICU department with all the amenities (hoteling) and is intended for mothers to rest and have better access to the babies and their constant presence. Is. This room is also equipped with a nurse call system.
Milking room : at the end of the department hall and adjacent to the mothers’ rest room, there are two electric breast pumps, a refrigerator for milk storage, a TV and DVD (for training mothers), a sofa bed, and a nurse call system. This room has a separate bathroom and toilet. is also

Section rules

  1. Keep all previous medical documents and your insurance booklet with you until the end of your hospitalization.
  2. Patient file information is private and staff are not allowed to share this information with anyone. You can ask your questions with the doctor or nurse in charge.
  3. If you bring medicine that needs refrigeration, please hand it over to the nurse in charge.
  • Meetings in the NICU department are possible at all hours of the day and night with the coordination of the department officials.

Guide to receiving the birth certificate of the baby

1- The necessary documents to obtain a birth certificate for a newborn baby include the birth certificate, the national card of the parents, and the baby’s medical examination card, where the result of the baby’s examination is written on the card by a pediatrician.
2- With the above documents in hand, the father or mother should go to the birth certificate office in Kilnik, located on the first floor, from Saturday to Wednesday from 8:30 to 11:30.

Important points

  • All points of the department are controlled by CCTV cameras.
  • Please do not touch the connections connected to the patients.
  • To use the holy books of the Torah and the Bible, go to the supervisor’s office located on the ground floor.
  • Avoid taking pictures and videos and talking on mobile phones in the corridor of the department.
  • To contact the telephone department of the hospital, call 17-33378310 and extension 510.

Teaching the patient’s family

In this hospital, training takes place in the following ways:

  1. Written trainings : distribution of training brochures that can be presented on the floors of the clinic and all departments of the hospital.
  2. TV programs : educational programs that are broadcasted through the domestic TV network.
  3. Oral trainings : includes oral trainings of the medical and nursing staff upon arrival of the patient, during hospitalization and during discharge.

How to admit and admit babies:

In the NICU, patients are admitted directly or indirectly.

Admission directly from the operating or delivery room, they enter the ward through a portable incubator, and are handed over to one of the ward’s nurses or midwives, and the baby is immediately placed on the resuscitation bed and under a warmer, and the oral and nasal secretions are suctioned and admitted. And then monitoring and controlling vital signs, measuring weight and height and injecting Vitk. He is examined by a resident doctor and then admitted to the service of one of Ankal’s doctors. Now, based on the clinical condition of the baby, he is admitted to the NICU or the second level, and then he executes the doctor’s orders, according to the routine of the newborns admitted to the NICU or the second level, tests and lung x-rays are performed and executed. Serum therapy begins. And the course of antibiotic treatment should be given. And in some cases, the baby is converted and injected with surfactant. In the special care department, all babies are visited by neonatal doctors. The admission order sheet is written by the resident doctor and he has done the admission work together with one of the parents, and then the admission and admission sheet is handed over to the department by the parents. This admission is done through the clinic or emergency room or other hospitals. take The baby is admitted to the ward along with the admit card and is examined by the resident doctor. And he is hospitalized in the service of one of the Ankals. And the rest of the cases and procedures are the same as the previous process.

All babies born in this hospital are delivered directly from the operating room to the neonatal ward by the midwives of the delivery room with a portable incubator and are delivered to the ward by one of the nurses or midwives of the neonatal ward.

After washing hands and putting on gloves, the baby is placed under the warmer in the presence of midwives in the delivery room. Then they start checking the baby, which are:

  • The baby’s bracelet is completely checked with the baby’s Apgar sheet. Name and family name of mother, name and family name of father, name of mother’s gynecologist
  • The sex of the baby is matched with the Apgar sheet.
  • The baby’s umbilical cord is checked for clamps and bleeding.
  • The appearance condition is completely checked. If something abnormal is seen, it must be told to the midwife in the delivery room and recorded in the Apgar chart.
  • Cord blood sample is also taken.
  • The back of the Apgar sheet must be filled completely by the recipient.
  • In the last stage, if there is no problem, the midwife will leave the delivery room of the newborn ward.
  • Before starting the administration, they must remove the wet towel and dry the baby.
  • Patient admission is done through the hospital admission unit. After filing the case in the admission unit, connecting the identification bracelet by …………………….. and coordinating, the patient goes to the admission unit and then to the ward. The concerned person is transferred and after greeting and identification of the patient by the shift manager and secretary of the department, he is transferred to the assigned bed. After explaining to the patient about the ward, the patient’s bill of rights, the patient identification bracelet, the nursing call bell, the patient’s clothes are changed by the relevant nurse’s assistant. Then the nurse in charge introduces herself to the patient and fills the admission form, asks about the medications the patient is taking, receives the documents related to the patient and registers them in the relevant form. Finally, the patient is reminded that the responsibility of all valuables is the responsibility of the patient and his companion. If he has valuables with him, he should make the necessary arrangements with the head of the ward for the process of keeping the property.

discharge

After the partial recovery and the oral or written order of the doctor, all the documents of the case are reviewed and completed by the secretary, and the nursing report and the discharge training form are written by the nurse, and the prescription, how to take the drugs, home orders, the time of the next visit and the time of the pathology answer. (If the sample is sent from the operating room) it will be given to the patient at the same time as the discharge form. After the discharge process and after handing over the discharge form to the ward clerk, the patient is helped to collect his personal belongings and change his clothes, and if he needs support, he is accompanied to the exit door of the hospital by the nurse’s aide.

Criticisms, suggestions, complaints

If you have any criticisms or suggestions, you can use one of the following 3 methods:

  1. Call the Complaints Unit on the morning shift at 17-33378310 extension 137. Visit the supervisor’s office in the evening and night shifts or call the supervisor’s phone number.
  2. Visit the complaint unit located on the ground floor in person during the morning shift and visit the supervisor’s office during the evening and night shifts.
  3. Write the cases in writing and drop them in the boxes installed in the department or in the corridor.

Introduction of required units

The office of the internal manager and nursing management is located on the sixth floor.
The main chapel of the hospital is located on the first floor.
Reception and admission and discharge unit, medical documents, laboratory, MRI, CTSCAN, radiology, emergency room, information unit, bank and trade ATM, buffet and copy unit, flower shop and public toilet are located on the ground floor.