 Hi everyone, welcome to NICU Diaries. In the earlier episode we have discussed about NICU team, condition and management. Let us know more about it. Thus, the NICU team has specialized training to tend to new bonds, particularly nursing staff. So, as we know that the nursing staff are the important pillars of all the healthcare providers and especially it's true, very true with the ICU care, where they need to be on their toes all the time. And the feeding also is very important for the small and babies. So yes, they especially need the special training in looking up the small and babies. Sometimes we at least recruit the care, at least for one year and they are entering into our analysis so that the care for the pre-times is not happening. Can you discuss the various technologies and equipments used in NICU to support new mental care? Most of intensive care is what we use. We are guided by the information available from various technologies and over the last 20 to 30 years, the last 2-3 decades, the IT has revolutionized how the ICU is working. So starting from the ventilator, starting from all our equipments, including the let's say echo machines or head scan machine or all the infusion pump, are all technology driven and we have a central monitor where we can see all these information. So technology is definitely modifying the health care and it is definitely helping the health care to achieve better quality of care. Is NICU painful? Most of the patients in NICU may not need intensive care and invasive procedures as such. If such a need is there, then procedures will be performed with appropriate sedation and pain relief. If you have seen some videos of babies being cared for in the NICU, it may be quite for parents. For parents and all locals, it might look like babies are going through a lot of pain, but actually we will find all the stuff not to do procedures at all times or do it with minimal invasiveness and with proper use of sedation. So all in all, we will try and do the procedures as conveniently possible for the babies to get enough rest and also in as seamless manner as possible. How do you ensure optimal care for premature infants in terms of nutrition and growth? Nutrition is very important for the patients as well as the term babies. Most times if the patients are delivered, they won't be able to toilet the breast milk in the early phase of life. So initially we start with something called as parental nutrition which includes giving the proteins and then the liquids and then the glucose for the babies. And along with that we do add on the breast milk. Most times we do prefer the breast milk and as the baby starts to toilet in the breast milk, the breast milk will be advanced and then the lipid proportions and the protein proportions will start coming down. The next question, what are the most common medical condition and challenges you encounter in the NICU? So for NICU, the main medical conditions what we see is preterm babies. So any baby who is born below 34 weeks, most of them will be admitted to NICU and then second important common condition we see is babies who have some breathing difficulties for various reasons. These are the most common conditions what we see. Apart from that, there will be some conditions which we pick up antinatally. So child might have a problem with the heart, child might have a problem with their tummy or with the brain or so on. So we pick up these conditions, these are the common admissions but prematurity is the main condition what we see in NICU at this point. Thank you doctors for giving available time and sharing inside about NICU. See you in next episode.