Sant Joan de Déu NICU: get to know our model of care for premature babies

The SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital has renovated the ICU for neonates to make it a more technical, safe and spacious space than the previous one. Thanks to the remodeling, this will be one of the largest intensive care units for premature babies in Spain. The space has 45 beds: 26 for critical patients, 18 for intermediate care and a simulation box. Of these boxes, two are equipped to be able to intervene on the babies without transferring them outside the Unit. The new space allows families to have more privacy, reduces the risk of infections and favors the success of breastfeeding. Each year, more than 400 newborns are admitted to this unit with prematurity, respiratory syndromes or infections and congenital malformations.
00:00 Story of a family in the NICU
00:37 New Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
01:10 Boxes that favor the kangaroo method
01:59 The family, main caregiver of the premature baby
02:38 NIDCAP Model of Neonatal Care
03:08 Space design and technology
03:51 The patient experience applied to the NICU
04:40 Changes in space and the healthcare model
05:36 The family values ​​the new space
06:08 Light and noise control
06:40 Technology and humanization