NICU

See also: nicu

English

Noun

NICU (plural NICUs)

  1. (healthcare) Initialism of neonatal intensive care unit.
    • 2011 November, “SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment”, in American Academy of Pediatrics‎[1], volume 128, number 5, pages 1032, 1035:
      Preterm infants and other infants in the NICU should be placed in the supine position for sleep as soon as the infant is medically stable and significantly before the infant’s anticipated discharge, by 32 weeks’ postmenstrual age. […] Staff in NICUs should model and implement all SIDS risk-reduction recommendations as soon as the infant is clinically stable and significantly before anticipated discharge.

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