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Although we encourage caregivers and students from other institutions to access the site for their education and to compare and contrast ongoing or potential practices at different sites, neonatal care quality rests squarely upon the point of care at the bedside and upon the shoulders of bedside caregivers. In some cases, documents in draft will be loaded to allow staff to review them prior to submission for committee approval. None of the information on this site should be considered to be a finished product, to be warranted or certified. Please report errors or typos directly to him. As the medical director of the Tulane Lakeside NICU, Dr Gordon is responsible for this site’s educational content and upkeep. Its primary mission is to support a culture in which we are constantly standardizing, re-evaluating, and improving upon neonatal care. This site has been created as an information clearing house for data and guidelines related to neonatal patient care, care giver education, and basic concept education at Tulane Lakeside NICU. However, this website has no formal or legal affiliation with Tulane or the Hospital Corporation of America.įOR EMPLOYEES AND STUDENTS AFFILIATED WITH TULANE LAKESIDE NICU
Dr Gordon is affiliated with Tulane School of Medicine and is the Section Head of Neonatology. This website is the intellectual property of Dr Phillip Gordon. Every choice we make for your child is made with his or her future potential in mind.Īt Tulane-Lakeside, we know it’s your baby. Even the antibiotics we choose are selected to optimize normal development. Finally, we are very selective about which medications we use. We are focused on nutrition and growth optimization, so that premature infants outgrow their problems (rather than get medicated for them). We have perfected non-invasive ventilation strategies in our unit because we know that babies who have to live on ventilators have worse outcomes. Tulane-Lakeside is the state leader in total body cooling, a therapy for infants who suffer partial asphyxia at birth. We also have state of the art technology. Later they can be used for breast feeding as the infants improve. There will be large “kangaroo” chairs to facilitate skin-to-skin bonding early on. Our newly renovated, state of the art NICU will be ready for occupancy in early 2011 with 26 patient beds, a procedure room, “rooming in” rooms, and plenty of space for parents to come and spend time with their child. On the other hand, babies that are sick also need a special place. Healthy babies do best if they are bonding with their parents as soon as possible. We know that breast milk is best and we have designed our recently finished nursery such that it is situated right in the middle of the post partum ward. In the newborn nursery, we still have those big windows, where you can come to see the babies, but we also have a policy of getting those babies out to the mother’s rooms so they can get a jump start on breast feeding. Now, after more than 100,000 deliveries, the newborn nursery and the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are getting renovations to go with the new technologies and strategies that we’ve adopted in recent years. The hospital that sits by I-10, just west of the Causeway, has long been a place where babies are born. Tulane-Lakeside is a busy place these days.