Definition of Neonatal intensive care unit

1. Noun. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn.

Exact synonyms: Nicu
Generic synonyms: Icu, Intensive Care Unit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

neonatal
neonatal abstinence syndrome
neonatal anaemia
neonatal apoplexy
neonatal arthritis of foals
neonatal calf diarrhoea virus
neonatal conjunctivitis
neonatal death
neonatal diagnosis
neonatal heart failure
neonatal hepatitis
neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
neonatal hypoglycaemia
neonatal intensive care unit (current term)
neonatal isoerythrolysis
neonatal line
neonatal lupus
neonatal medicine
neonatal mortality
neonatal mortality rate
neonatal nursing
neonatal period
neonatal pulmonary venous hypertension
neonatal ring
neonatal screening
neonatal sepsis
neonatal tetanus

Literary usage of Neonatal intensive care unit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Critical Pathways: Current Bibliographies in Medicine, January 1988-December by Ronald L. Gordner, Patricia Moritz (1995)
"Nursing case management in the neonatal intensive care unit. Part 1: Pioneering new territory. Neonatal Netw 1994 Dec;13(8):9-12. Lawlor-Klean P, Swanson SC ..."

2. Helping Children Take Healthy Steps: Abstracts of Selected Articles on Early edited by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (1999)
"Intervention(s): While they were in the neonatal intensive care unit, all infants in the treatment group received at least two developmental interventions ..."

3. Guide To Clinical Preventive Services by U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (1989)
"Hearing loss screening in the neonatal intensive care unit: auditory brain stem response versus crib-o- gram; a cost-effectiveness analysis. ..."

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