IV (Intravenous Infusion)
This is a needle or small tube that is placed into one of the veins of the infant. It is attached by tubing to a container of fluid. It is used to deliver fluids, medications and nutrients to the baby. Common sites for IV’s are hands, feet, arms, legs, and scalp.

Umbilical Arterial Catheter (UAC) or Umbilical Venous Catheter (UVC)
This is a small piece of tubing threaded into the baby’s artery or vein in the umbilical stump (belly button). In addition to delivering fluids, medication, and nutrients, blood can be withdrawn painlessly for laboratory studies.

I-STAT Blood Gas Machine
We have been using this state of the art piece of equipment for several years. This hand-held device gives almost immediate blood work results.

Phototherapy
Jaundice is common in newborns, due to an increase in bilirubin (a normal breakdown product of blood) in the body. To help remove bilirubin, babies are placed under special lights or lie on a special lighted pad. These are called “bili lights, “bili blankets”, or “lucey lights”. Eye patches are placed over the baby’s eyes to protect them from the lights. If your baby is receiving this treatment, the lights may be turned off briefly and the patches removed when you visit.

Scales
Babies are weighed daily. Smaller babies are weighed on a sling scale in the isolette in order to keep them in their warm environment. As they grow, they are weighed on a scale at the bedside.

Brainz
The Brainz monitor is a bedside monitoring system that gives staff the ability to monitor brain function 24 hours per day. It displays real time and time compressed EEG readings.

Selective Total Body Cooling
Electively inducing hypothermia (decrease in body temperature) to reduce the incidence of death and disability in term and near term infants.