Neonatology is a subspecialty of medicine defined as the care of the ill or premature newborn infant. It is a boarded, hospital-based subspecialty of pediatrics. Most neonatal medicine is practiced in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The principal patients of neonatologists are newborn infants ill or requiring special medical care because of prematurity, low birth weight (intrauterine growth retardation, or congenital malformations (birth defects).
Example Usage of Neonatologist
Adenovir: @hostagenurse And I've been a pediatrician/Neonatologist for 12 years.
simplyamazing92: when i grow up, i wanna be a Neonatologist. :]
Questionstruck: #cnftweet Dr. Zomb, Neonatologist, dines on suckling pig, washes it down with utter-warm milk. His little patients can’t know his appetites.
