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Obstetrics and High-Risk Infant Care
All of our pediatric residents rotate through
Hutzel Hospital, located near Children's in The Detroit Medical Center.
Hutzel, a
regional center for high-risk deliveries and the largest maternity center in the state,
has one of the busiest obstetrics services in the country, delivering over 7,000 babies
each year. About 19 percent of their babies are delivered by cesarean section, and
about 12 percent require admission to the neonatal intensive care unit.
The volume and intensity of Hutzel's obstetrics service makes it a strong component of our pediatric training program. Residents become skilled with assessment and rapid resuscitation in the delivery room, and proficient in the care of both well and sick neonates.
Pediatric residents serve in the delivery area, special care nursery and normal newborn nursery. They attend all complex deliveries, newborn resuscitations, and C-sections. Staff neonatologists and neonatology fellows provide 24-hour, on site back-up.
Residents have primary patient-care
responsibility for Hutzel's 20-bed NICU, which has the capacity for 14
ventilators. First-year residents are responsible for the normal
newborn nursery and work in labor and delivery with second-year
residents. Residents also serve as primary pediatricians to Hutzel's
staff patients and conduct informal teaching sessions with new parents of
healthy newborns. Hutzel's training program includes weekly
obstetric/pediatric rounds and conferences.