conditions
The NICU at Dayton Children’s provides expert care for medically fragile newborns, including those born prematurely (before 37 weeks gestation), babies with rare or complex medical conditions, those requiring surgery and/or other specialty care. We are the only NICU in the region to perform surgery on these infants.
If your baby is diagnosed with a medical issue prior to birth, our nurse navigator from the Fetal to Newborn Care Center will help walk you through the process of meeting with specialists before and after your baby is born.
On rare occasions, babies may need a type of care that is not available at Dayton Children’s— like open heart surgery. In this case, our team will provide a comprehensive assessment of the child’s needs, work with families to identify the best facility for care and transport the baby to that hospital. After surgery we will provide comprehensive follow up care.
Below is a partial listing of the most common conditions we see. For a more comprehensive list of fetal conditions please visit the Fetal to Newborn Care Center.
medical
blood - disorders
- Anemia
- Hyperbilirubinemia or jaundice
- Exchange transfusion
- Blood type incompatibility any bleeding and coagulation disorders
- Thrombocytopenia
complex birth defects/genetic disorders
- Chromosomal or other genetic defects
central nervous system
- Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
- Seizures
- Head/body cooling
- Hypotonia
- Muscle disorders
gastrointestinal conditions
- Feeding intolerance
- GERD
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Choleostasis
- NEC
- Failure to Thrive
heart disease
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Ventricular septal defect (hole in heart)
- PPHN
- Cardiac ahrrythmia
- Cyanotic or Acyanotic heart defects
infectious diseases
- Meningitis (Bacterial or viral)
- Sepsis (Bacterial or viral)
- Torch Infection
metabolic and endocrine diseases
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypocalcemia
- Inborn error of metabolism
- IDM
- Hypo or Hyperthyroidism
- Adrenal dysfunction
neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS)
renal diseases
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Kidney failure (acute or chronic)
- Hydronephosis
- Multi cystic kidney
- Agenisis of kidney
- UTI
respiratory
- Aspiration pneumonia: meconium or - other
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
- Transient tachypnea
- Apnea
- Pneumothorax
- Plural effusion/ Chylothorax
surgical conditions
ENT/airway
- Upper/lower air way malacia
- Failure to extubate
- Subglottic stenosis
gastrointestinal
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Pyloric stenosis
- Gastroschisis / Omphalocele
- Small or large intestine obstruction
- Hirschsprungs disease
- Diaphragmatic hernia
- Tracheo-esophageal fistula (TEF/EA)
neurosurgical
- Hydrocephalus
- Intraventricular hemorrhage
orthopaedic
- Hip dysplasia
- Fracture
- Muscular dysplasia
plastic surgery
- Clef lip/palate
- Jaw defects
urological
- Hydronephrosis
- Ambiguous genitalia
- Posterior urethral valve
- Vesicoureteric reflux
- Hypospadias
