dear sir

What is the protocol of your department in terms of weight and age for hospitalization in nicu? For example, do you admit a patient aged 50 days with a weight of 2 kg in nicu or picu?

Hi! In addition, to admission due to symtoms (regardless of gestational age), we plan admission for all infants <35 weeks.

We admit mostly newborns, but consider admission of infants the first few weeks of age, if there is a non-infection as the main differential diagnosis.

So for example, we can admit jaundiced infants if they present after a few days. Before admissions from home, we screen for RS-, influensa- and Covid19-virus, and if negative, those infants get admitted

Good morning

Here in Fort Worth once a baby goes home from the hospital - the age does not matter the baby would go to PICU  

now we do transfer infants from one NICU to another 

 

admission discharge policy - Newborn Clinical Guideline - NICU Admissions Discharges and Transfers.mhtadmission discharge policy - Newborn Clinical Guideline - NICU Admissions Discharges and Transfers.mht

Less than 2 kg NICU graduates should be admitted in NICU irrespective of age.

Fino ad 1 mese di vita accettiamo tutti.

I neonati oltre 1 mese di vita e fino a 5 kg di peso vengono accettati solo se hanno necessità  di assistenza respiratoria