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Normal Nursery & Neonate Intensive Care Unit


The Unit provides comprehensive medical and nursing service for new born infant, premature cases and their families over 24 hours to ensure the highest level of efficiency and safety, by very qualified and trained health care providers.

The most encountered cases:

The NICU department consists of a highly qualified and educated staff is able to professionally handle a variety of cases it is single handedly (and the biggest NICU in the private sector in Jordan one of biggest NICU departments in the whole private sector). The NICU is well equipped with the latest technologically innovative machines. The cases presented include (New Born, Premature Infant, Respiratory distress syndrome, Neonatal jaundice, surgical cases, congenital abnormalities, Transient tachypnea of newborn, congenital pneumonia, Sepsis).  

The major procedures that are conducted in the department

  • Insertion of Endotracheal tube
  • Insertion of umbilical catheter
  • Insertion of chest tube
  • Insertion of foley's catheter
  • Intravenous peripheral cannulation
  • Blood sampling
  • Blood exchange
  • Surfactant administration.
  • O2 therapy
  • Caring of patient on mechanical ventilator
  • Intensive phototherapy
  • Health education for the mothers

Devices used in the department

Nasal high flow device (Vapotherm) Vapotherm humidified high flow, nasal Cannula used to treat the symptoms of the following diseases:

  • RDS ( in mild and moderate cases to decrease need for intubation )
  • TTN
  • Post open heart surgery patient.
  • Chronic lung disease of prematurity
  • Bronchiolitis
  • Post extubation from mechanical ventilation
  • Congenital pneumonia

Nitric oxide – device 

Nitric oxide (inhaled NO) used to treat the following diseases:

  • Pulmonary hypertension both primary and secondary.
  • Used during catherization to minimize irreversibility
  • Post open heart surgery

Intensive phototherapy – device Intensive Phototherapy is the most efficient treatment for severe cases of neonatal jaundice to avoid blood exchange.

Health education materials:

  • Breast feeding

We are distributing breast feeding brochures to the mothers to encourage mothers to naturally breast feed and benefits of breast feeding and the most important factors that increase the production of milk and the proper way to breast feed the new born to solve the problems that mother face during breast feeding. 

  • Neonatal screen

The neonatal screen brochures is distributed to the parents to inform them about the potential problems their newborn is at risk of experiences in order to detect these problems early before reaching later stage of disease progression so that the diagnosis and treatments begins in the early stages like( hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria, G6PD deficiency, cystic fibrosis, glatosemia, congenital adrenal hyperplasia).

  • Unit special instruction for mothers
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