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Neonatal-Perinatal Information:

Neonatal-Perinatal specialists practice a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn infant. It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practiced in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The principal patients of neonatal-perinatal specialist are newborn infants who are ill or requiring special medical care due to prematurity, low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation, congenital malformations (birth defects), sepsis or birth asphyxias.

A baby should see a neonatal-perinatal specialist if they are premature, have low birth weight, birth defects, etc. Procedures include surgery, medicine and education.

Some subspecialties include general pediatricians, cardiologists, endocrinologists, geriatrics, infectious disease, pulmonology and rheumatology.


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