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If your new baby needs special care, rely on us. OU Children's Physicians Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine serves as a statewide referral center for premature and sick newborns. Our neonatologists coordinate medical services with our other children's specialists.
Advanced training and years of experience help us stabilize newborns with life-threatening conditions, such as infections or breathing disorders. We can coordinate care of premature babies and those born with a serious illness. Many children with birth defects, critical injuries or serious diseases who can't be helped elsewhere come to OU Children's Physicians.
Our comprehensive coverage for Oklahoma's premature and full-term infants includes the following services:
Emergency care of unexpectedly ill newborns - Diagnostic services for newborns with complex medical problems
- Consultations from almost every pediatric specialty and sub-specialty
- MediFlight helicopter and ground transfers from other medical facilities
- Cutting-edge treatments based on the latest research protocols
- High-frequency ventilation and inhaled nitric oxide therapy
- ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation)
- Exchange transfusion
- Nutritional care of critically-ill newborns to ensure they heal properly
- Help with arranging extended stays at nearby hotels or rooming-in
- Follow-up clinics for NICU "graduates" with ongoing health issues
- Inpatient and outpatient sleep studies for infants and children
Our specialists practice in the OU Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center, Women’s & Newborn Pavilion. This facility includes:
24/7 in-house neonatology coverage
- 18 pre-delivery beds for women with high-risk pregnancies
- 16 labor and delivery (LDR) and 3 operating rooms
- 6 urgent care rooms for labor and delivery
- 40 mother-baby unit beds
- An 88-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
- A dedicated obstetrical anesthesia program
