Comprehensive Pre-term Care
Premature newborns have an increased risk of complications. We effectively manage acute medical conditions associated with prematurity such as respiratory distress, sepsis, electrolyte abnormalities, nutrition, temperature dysregulation, and perfusion abnormalities with state-of-the-art equipment. Our well experienced neonatal team of nurses and doctors ensure excellent intact survival in all our babies for the past two decades.
Critical Care
Being the first of its kind in South Chennai, Prashanth Women and Children’s Centre has established a fully equipped 15-bedded Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, run by a team of highly qualified Pediatric Intensivists and Emergency Pediatricians. Sick children who require advanced care of life support like mechanical ventilation, bronchoscopy, HFOV, hemodialysis, CRRT, and ECMO are taken care of in this unit.
High-risk Neonatal Screening
Screening for hearing OAE, BERA, ROP high risk follow up clinic - Neurodevelopment, mental assessment, and early intervention.
Neonatal and Pediatric Surgeries
A specialized field of surgery for the treatment of conditions like congenital malformation of GIT and urinary track, traumatic injury, GT surgeries like Hernia, Circumcision, tracheoesophageal atresia, pyeloplasty, bladder augmentation.
Pediatric Surgical Oncology
Surgery often plays a critical role in a child’s overall cancer treatment. Our pediatric surgical oncology team consists of experts with extensive experience in various types of cancers including Wilms tumor as well as other rare and hard-to-treat cancers.
Child Developmental Clinic Programs
We not only ensure survival in our babies but also take care that they are neurologically and developmentally normal. We have a child developmental clinic program where experts in child psychology, psychiatry, neurology, speech therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and pediatrics integrate to provide comprehensive developmental follow-up care for our NICU and PICU babies.
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), autistic disorder, development delay, Down syndrome, speech delay are the few disorders that are treated by our child development department.
Other key procedures
Foreign body removal and laparoscopic pyloromyotomy, Kasai procedure, bronchoscopy, management of all allergies, skin infection and diseases are just a few of our specialized Pediatric treatments.