The Hospital | Equipment In The NICU

The Hospital | Equipment In The NICU

Upon entering the NICU, you may be overwhelmed with all the monitors, tubes, and equipment.

The equipment in the NICU is designed and highly-specialized for the tiny patients in the unit. This equipment constantly monitors various factors associated with your baby or aids in their treatment.

In addition, most of the equipment in the NICU, such as heart monitors and ventilators have alarms. The staff in the NICU is trained to use the equipment and machines, as well as interpret machine information.

While it is easy (and scary) to get caught up watching the monitors, we encourage you to watch your baby. If an alarm should sound, there will be an NICU staff member close at hand to help.

To make things more understandable we have divided this section in to the following sub sections.

Summary of most commonly used equipment will give you the basics on what the equipment does and how it works in layman’s terms.
Detailed equipment, contains detailed information on the most common used equipment as well as those not so commonly used.

A picture of how everything might look like at a glance

We have tried to include as much information as possible, although not all equipment and treatment are covered.