Diagnosis and treatment
We provide high quality care for neonates who need intensive and specialist care, including surgery and cardiac care. We also perform other procedures and interventions on the unit including eye screening and laser treatment.
We provide different levels of care, including:
- intensive care for babies who need ventilation, premature babies weighing less than 1000g or babies born at less than 28 weeks gestation, and for babies with severe respiratory disease or who need major surgery
- high dependency care for babies who need respiratory support, intravenous nutrition and additional care that is greater than special care
- special care, for babies who need constant monitoring of respiration or heart rate, are receiving extra oxygen or being tube fed.
Specialist services
We have close links with the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and specialist and general children's services within Southampton Children’s Hospital. We provide an extensive range of specialist paediatric services in neonatal medicine and surgery, including:
- neonatal surgery
- cardiology
- nephrology (children's kidney service)
- neurosurgery
- clinical genetics.
We also work closely with the fetal medicine unit, managing high risk and complicated pregnancies and deliveries.
Surgical neonatal care is led by an experienced multi-professional team. Specialist information and support for parents of babies needing surgical services is available prenatally during admission and following discharge from hospital.