Intensive care for premature infants and infants at high risk

The hospital has fully equipped intensive care unit, including:

  • ventilator support
  • surfactant therapy
  • cardio-vascular resuscitation
  • temperature and metabolism maintenance
  • parenteral feeding
  • treatment of specific diseases - serious jaundice, anemia and infection

This treatment is compulsory for newborns at high risk – babies with different level of postpartum adaptation disorder - premature babies, babies with family disease history, pregnancy complications, and babies born with asphyxia.  

Daily communication between staff and parents is guaranteed, where the latter receive accurate and up to date information about the newborn’s health status.

The parents have free access to the baby during the period of its treatment.

Discussions parents-doctor are as frequent as necessary.

The parents are usually drawn into the treatment process and are taught how to do some procedures if necessary.

This way, the contact and connection between the baby and its parents is maintained.

As soon as possible, after the stabilization of the baby, breastfeeding is recommended and supported.In case of a longer stay of the baby, after the discharge of the mother, the possibility to feed the baby with her drained breast milk remains.

After the baby’s discharge, it’s the physical and neurological development is continuously tracked and all details concerning feeding, regime and cares at come are discussed.