- The Neurological Screening and Neurohabilitation Center for High-Risk Newborns provides neurological care and follow-up for six months to premature babies born at less than 32 weeks of gestation or weighing less than 1,250 kilograms.
- Its objective is to detect and correct neurodevelopmental disorders, cerebral palsy, autism, attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity among others.
- Pediatricians, neonatologists, nursing, nutrition, psychology, and social work collaborate in multidisciplinary care.
The High Specialty Medical Unit (UMAE), Gynecology and Obstetrics Hospital No. 23, of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in Nuevo León made history. The reason is because you installed the first Neurological Screening and Neurohabilitation Center for High Risk Newborns in the country.
Dr. Antonia Yesenia Medina de la Cruz, Pediatric neonatologist with a high specialty in monitoring the neurodevelopment of high-risk newborns and in intra and extra intensive care neurohabilitation, explained that premature patients present risk factors for its development. That is why they require early attention by a multidisciplinary health team.
The Center provides care and follow-up in the first six months to premature babies born less than 32 weeks gestationor, with a weight of less than 1,250 kilograms.
Characteristics of the Neurological Screening and Neurohabilitation Center for High-Risk Newborns
Pediatric neonatologists, supported by the Nursing, Nutrition, Psychology and Social Work departments, carry out a comprehensive assessment that includes the usual physical examination, vaccination schemes, nutrition, breastfeeding, psychosocial environment and monitor all aspects of their development with standardized tests.
Treatment is individualized, in order to detect early health effects due to motor, neurological, language, sensory, visual, auditory, psychiatric, malnutrition, among others.
“We will monitor their motor condition, their crawling, their sitting, their gait or possible neurodevelopmental disorders, cerebral palsy, autism, attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity, for which they are often socially labeled.”
He Neurological Screening and Neurohabilitation Center for High-Risk Newborns in the country it is located on the second floor of the UMAE Hospital de Gynecology and Obstetrics No. 23. It stands out because it has a neurological examination and neurohabilitation office, a somatometry and vital signs module. It also has one for clinical nutrition and breastfeeding advice and an area for Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
The specialist indicated that she felt fortunate to receive the support of the director of UMAE No. 23, Dr. Norma Cisneros García, to materialize the project that is already a national benchmark.
“I am extremely grateful for the opportunity and I am happy because this is a dream that I had for a long time, to do something more for high-risk neonates. I wanted our hospital to have this center because it has the capacity, the human resources, the infrastructure and that it will allow us to increase the quality of care for our patients”.
He Center for Neurological Screening and Neurohabilitation of the UMAE HGO No. 23, of the IMSS is the result of the talent and vision of a professional passionate about the care of premature newborns and the strengthening of the PediatrIMSS Program for the well-being and healthy development of children.
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