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Highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration represented by the Neonatal Neurocritical Care program, this case follows the care of a full-term female infant with a rare congenital vascular disease.
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A new CHOP-led study finds that better planning is needed to improve mother-infant outcomes, and reduce stress on health systems and staff when hospital OB units close.
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The ECMO Program at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the most active in the country, and has supported more than 1,000 patients since it was established in 1990.
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Two of CHOP's clinicians, Drs. Levy and Gerdes, served as expert panelists in two Capitol Hill briefings for staff and members of Congress.
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Human milk is infant food, but for sick, hospitalized babies, it’s also medicine. CHOP experts cover this topic in a neonatal nursing journal’s special issue focused on human milk for sick newborns.
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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is developing a nonprofit human milk bank for hospitalized infants. The program, part of CHOP's Breastfeeding and Lactation Program, is expected to open in late summer of 2015.
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The Newborn and Infant Chronic Lung Disease Program at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is one of the largest programs of its kind in the world.
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A study by CHOP researchers recently published in Nature Medicine offers a possible explanation as to why preterm infants are more vulnerable to serious infections than infants born at term.
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An ex 23-week male infant was diagnosed with chronic lung disease. The rich experience and multidisciplinary collaboration of the NeoCLD Program resulted in significant improvement of the baby’s CLD.
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The Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program at CHOP is one of the most active programs in the country, recently surpassing 1,000 patients treated.