What does NICU mean? I have seen this word on some brands in the hospital.

NICU is the abbreviation of Neonatalintensivecarecenter, which means neonatal intensive care center in Chinese.

Neonatal Intensive Care Center (NICU) serves critically ill newborns, mainly to reduce neonatal death. Neonatal care includes:

1, life support of various high-risk newborns and monitoring and handling of related problems.

2. Rescue and treatment of neonatal asphyxia related diseases.

3. Treatment of neonatal hemolysis.

4. Respiratory management.

5, neonatal postoperative patient monitoring management.

6. Screening of children's hereditary metabolic diseases.

7. Management of premature infants: vital signs monitoring, intravenous nutrition application, nasoduodenal feeding, respiratory support and management, circulatory support, blood sugar monitoring, internal environment monitoring and maintenance, prevention and treatment of intraventricular hemorrhage in very low birth weight infants and ultra-low birth weight infants to ensure the quality of life of children.

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The current situation of NICU

Under the background of the comprehensive two-child policy, the increase in the proportion of elderly and high-risk pregnant women in China has led to more and more critically ill newborns, and many cities have the problem of lack of neonatal emergency professionals and equipment. At the same time, due to the limitation of medical technology and resources, it is difficult for many primary hospitals to treat critically ill newborns in time and effectively. NICU and neonatal ambulances are in short supply.

Take 20 16 Sichuan province as an example. There are more than 1000 general hospitals in the province, but there are only more than 90 hospitals with NICU, accounting for a very low proportion. NICU has been overloaded for a long time, and the bed utilization rate exceeds 100%. According to the statistics of Sichuan Provincial Health Planning Commission, by the end of June 2006, there were only 206 rescue centers for critically ill newborns in Sichuan Province, including 42 rescue centers in cities (states).

On the one hand, the current situation of NICU is that the number of treatment centers in China is insufficient, on the other hand, it is also facing the embarrassment of insufficient capacity of primary treatment centers.

Baidu encyclopedia -NICU

People's Network-Sichuan: "The Network of Life" guards critically ill newborns.