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Admission to the NICU once discharge

By Barbara Hering posted 02-20-2015 02:50 PM

  
Hi everyone.

I was hoping to hear what some of the NICU practices are with babies that have been discharged and need to be readmitted. Do you readmit to the NICU? If you have an open NICU how do you decrease the risk of exposure to the other babies? Do you have a guideline of the max age you would bring back to the NICU? If they are readmitted to the Peds division do you place the Neonatologist on consult? Sorry for all of the questions.

Thank You

Theresa Martinez
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06-28-2015 01:44 PM

We readmit to our single-room NICU, but only up to 28 days of age. Otherwise the readmitted baby would have to go to the pediatric unit and be under the peds hospitalist's care. We only swab for MRSA when receiving a baby from another facility.

03-04-2015 11:03 AM

We do, on occasion take a discharged infant back into the unit but generally they go to the peds floor. There is no policy about neo consult. We never readmit patients with respiratory symptoms. The rare baby that is readmitted is placed on contact isolation until a MRSA culture comes back negative. We have private rooms.