Pediatrics

Neonatology and Perinatology

Neonatology includes medical care of new born infants, especially premature and sick new born. It is commonly practiced in neonatal intensive care units. The major patients of neonatologists are new born infants who essential specific medical care due to low birth weight, prematurity, intrauterine growth retardation, congenital malformations, sepsis, pulmonary hypoplasia or birth asphyxia. Perinatology is a practice of medicine agitated with the care of the fetus. Perinatal span starts at the 20th to 28th week of gestation and ends 1 to 4 weeks after birth. Before birth a high-risk baby might be protect by a perinatologist and after birth by a neonatologist.