neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
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January 19, 2024
Retirement won’t slow down pioneering neonatal nurse Odessa Settles
Odessa Settles may have retired after spending more than 50 years as a neonatal nurse at Vanderbilt, but her career is far from over. -
December 21, 2023
Special delivery: NICU babies’ first Christmas
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December 18, 2023
Larger accessible parking spaces added to South Garage
Multiple newly striped, larger-sized accessible parking spaces with crosshatched areas to allow for additional space added to the South Garage are helping parents of children with complex needs safely get to clinic visits at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. -
June 15, 2023
Stahlman NICU transitions to new resuscitation unit
Vanderbilt's The Stahlman Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, one of the first modern neonatal intensive care units in the world, cared for its last baby and closed at the end of May. -
March 2, 2023
Cannula shortage led to more invasive lung support for infants
A Vanderbilt study found that a three-year shortage of a common cannula used in young infants needing lung support forced hospitals across the United States to switch to a more invasive form of lung support, -
December 27, 2022
Photos celebrate NICU babies’ first Christmas
Christmas is a holiday that celebrates the birth of a baby; here are photos of some babies who spent their first Christmas in NICU, surrounded by the love of family and in the care of their doctors and nurses -
August 18, 2022
Study seeks to explore drug link to fetal vessel defect
Vanderbilt researchers have received a grant to study whether drugs given to premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) contribute to a potentially lethal condition called patent ductus arteriosus.