Re: preemie-l From Cynthia Faullin: NICU (fwd)
C. Hewitt (hewitt@cyg.net)
Thu, 30 May 1996 21:49:33 -0400
>We will be attending the annual NICU reunion this weekend. I will ask, but
>I am quite sure that they have a strict policy about not taking back babies
>once they have been discharged. I'm sure that this has everything to do
>with transmission of infections acquired outside of the unit.
The NICU I was in had the same policy too. There is a PICU in a hospital
across town and babies are supposed to go there. (Politics and turf wars,
a topic for another post)
Anyway, Alex needed another round of laser eye surgery and the surgeon
works at the hospital with the NICU. Alex was admitted to Ped floor but
after surgery ended up in the NICU because the ped floor was not used to
such small babies on vent after surgery. He was still about 5 lbs. So,
the rules can be broken if your surgeon has enough clout. Actually I would
take Alex to the other hospital now (with PICU) because it is a better
children's hospital overall.
Catherine Hewitt