The Division of Neonatology is responsible for all newborns admitted to the Department of Pediatrics. The state-of-the-art Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) houses up to 70 critically ill newborns, all in single rooms. The unit is equipped with the latest equipment and staffed by a large team of highly trained nurses and other staff. A laboratory within the NICU provides around-the-clock service.
Clinical Services
- Specialized care of all newborn medical and surgical problems
- Prenatal consultation with high-risk obstetrics patients
- Attendance at high-risk deliveries
- Care of premature and extremely premature infants
- Care of critically-ill full-term infants
- Surgical repair of birth defects by specialists in Pediatric Surgery,
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Orthopedics,
Pediatric Otolaryngology, Pediatric Urology
- Pediatric transplantation programs for bone marrow, heart, kidney,
and liver
- Consultants in all pediatric subspecialties
- Specialized care of neonatal lung problems
- High-frequency ventilation (oscillation and flow-interruption)
- Inhaled nitric oxide
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
- Renal supportive therapy, including hemofiltration, hemodialysis,
and peritoneal dialysis
- Individualized developmental assessment and care of premature infants
- Transport of critically-ill infants (including, if necessary, transport
on high-frequency ventilation or nitric oxide)
- Outpatient follow-up care of high-risk infants
- Recent articles of interest:
Registry of Surviving Infants with Birth Weight Below 400 Grams
Educational Resources
Training Program in Neonatology
Faculty
- Jeffrey Segar, MD, Director
- Michael Acarregui, MD
- Sunny Arikat, MD, DCH, MRCP (UK)
- Edward Bell, MD
- Tarah Colaizy, MD, MPH
- John Dagle, MD, PhD
- Jonathan Klein, MD
- Julie Lindower, MD, MPH
- Frank Morriss, MD, MPH
- Jeffrey Murray, MD
- Robert Roghair, MD
- John Widness, MD
- Zahi Zeidan, MD
- Ekhard Ziegler, MD
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Appointments and questions:
M-F, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
319-384-5258
Toll Free:
1-888-573-5437
Patient Self Referrals
Emergencies, evenings, and weekends:
319-356-1616
Physician Referrals and consultations:
1-800-322-8442
(ask for neonatologist on call)
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