Neonatal Neurocritical Care

The neonatal neurocritical care team at University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital provides coordinated, specialized care for infants born with a neurological condition or who are at risk for neurological disease or injury.

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Neurological conditions and injuries can have a long-term effect on your child's growth and development. Our neonatal neurocritical care specialists will collaborate with your family to design personalized care plans for neurological intervention, early intervention services, and rehabilitation to help improve your baby's outcomes.

Using both pharmaceutical therapies and the latest technologies, we provide personalized, brain-focused care in an interprofessional and collaborative effort to help your baby—and all babies in Iowa—survive and thrive.

Iowa’s only comprehensive neonatal neurocritical care program

UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital is home to the only neonatal neurocritical care program in Iowa and includes all pediatric subspecialties, including pediatric neurology, neurosurgery, neurointerventional radiology, and medical and biochemical genetics.

In fact, we're home to Iowa's only pediatric neurosurgeons, neurointerventional radiologist, and biochemical geneticist.

Also, our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is equipped with the most advanced neuromonitoring capabilities available 24/7. In addition, we offer both inpatient and outpatient early neurodevelopmental assessments to coordinate intervention after you’ve left the hospital.

There is no other hospital in the state with our level of expertise to diagnose and treat congenital or acquired neurological conditions that might affect your baby before, during, and after birth.

UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital

Iowa's only neonatal neurocritical care program providing coordinated, specialized care for newborn and infant babies that are born with a neurological condition or at risk for neurological disease, damage, or injury.

Collaborative, expert neonatal neurocritical care

Each member of our collaborative, interdisciplinary neonatal neurocritical care team holds specific expertise in neurological conditions and treatments. They work together to provide your baby with the detailed and comprehensive care they need to improve their growth and developmental outcomes.

This team includes neonatologists, neurophysiologists, pediatric neurosurgeons, pediatric neuroradiologists, pediatric neurointerventional radiologists, pediatric medical geneticists, developmental and behavior pediatricians, pain and palliative care pediatricians, physical medicine and rehabilitation pediatric specialists, critical care nurses and nurse practitioners, pharmacists, dieticians, social workers, care coordinators, and specialized therapists (physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, music therapy, and child life services).