The Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center has provided care for both healthy and ill newborns for more than 30 years.

Faculty oversees care in the newborn nursery at Parkland Health & Hospital System, where more than 15,000 babies are admitted each year. In addition, preterm newborns with lung disorders, as well as newborns with complex medical and surgical problems are cared for by neonatologists in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Parkland's facilities include the first- and third-largest neonatal intensive care unit in North Texas.

We care for a variety of complications in newborns, including:

• Lung disorders
• Heart and heart-related problems
• Neurological problems
• Birth injuries
• Newborn jaundice
• Intestinal complications
• Infections and sepsis
• Pneumonia
• Anemia

Babies with special metabolic, cardiac, or surgical conditions can be transferred from other hospitals to the Children's Medical Center Dallas NICU, which is also supervised by our faculty members. Physicians are proud to work with well-educated and experienced nurses, nurse practioners and other well-trained health care professionals — who provide the finest care with the patient's well-being as their first priority.

A wide range of additional neonatal intensive care services is available:

• Multidisciplinary care teams with family centered care
• State-of-the-art ventilatory support, including high-frequency ventilation
• Immediate availability of high-level subspecialty consultation
• Full access to all radiology and other technology with neonatal expertise
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
• Full cardiothoracic surgery and anesthesia program
• Fetal and postnatal echocardiography
• Lactation specialists
• On-site neonatal pharmacy services
• Pediatric ostomy specialists
• Video EEG for evaluation of seizures