Virtual Care Across the Neonatal Intensive Care Continuum

Purnahamsi Desai; Sadaf H Kazmi; Stacey Schneider; Robert Angert

doi:10.7759/cureus.35183

Virtual Care Across the Neonatal Intensive Care Continuum

Cureus. 2023 Feb 19;15(2):e35183. doi: 10.7759/cureus.35183. eCollection 2023 Feb.

Authors

Purnahamsi Desai¹, Sadaf H Kazmi¹, Stacey Schneider², Robert Angert¹

Affiliations

¹ Pediatrics, New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA.
² Child Life, New York University (NYU) Langone Health, New York, USA.

Abstract

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the need for establishing effective parent and family engagement throughout all aspects of medicine. Though there has been some discussion in the literature regarding the transition from typical outpatient visits to telehealth visits, there has been less written about the inpatient approach to family inclusion. Here, we seek to describe our institution's experience with implementing virtual medicine across the full continuum of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experience, including inpatient rounding, child life family visits, and outpatient high-risk developmental follow-up after discharge.

Keywords: family-centered care; neonatal intensive care unit; nicu; telehealth; telemedicine; virtual care; virtual medicine.