Clinical Opportunities
All clinical responsibilities and educational activities are within Oklahoma Children's Hospital
The NICU at Oklahoma Children's Hospital is the area's only level IV NICU. We offer our patients therapeutic hypothermia, inhaled nitric oxide, high-frequency ventilation, NAVA and extracorporeal life support (ECLS) and other advanced treatment modalities. Our clinical services are supported by all pediatric and surgical subspecialties.
Acute Care Teams
- Fellows lead a team of residents and medical students (West) or neonatal nurse practitioners (East) under the supervision of an attending physician
- Daily rounding with pharmacists, nutritionists, and other auxiliary medical services
- Rotation through the teams for 36 weeks during fellowship
- Collaborate with pediatric and surgical subspecialist
Cardiac Care
Transport, Labor & Delivery, and Consultation Team
- Attends all high-risk deliveries
- Consults on families of high-risk infants prior to delivery
- Organizes neonatal transport calls, including management and triage of high-risk infants and deployment of the neonatal transport team to the entire state of Oklahoma and surrounding areas
- Collaborates with OBGYN and maternal fetal medicine
Air Kids One
Neonatal Fellows will be available for:
- 24 hour case consultations
- Case Management
- Deployment of transport team
- Guidance of treatment in the field
Outpatient Clinics
- Our two outpatient clinics provide training in short-term NICU follow-up (High-Risk Clinic) and neurodevelopmental follow-up (PremieR Clinic) for our high-risk newborns.
