strength in
numbers
6
#
ranked
in the nation
FETAL CARE AND
NEONATOLOGY
42 pediatric
PROVIDERS:
Exposure to amniotic
fluid damages the spine.
What if we patched
those apertures with the
fetus still in the womb?
The Colorado Fetal Care Center at Children’s Hospital Colorado treats
the smallest patients at their most vulnerable stage: before they’re born.
Equipped with the technology and expertise to provide any fetal treatment
currently available anywhere in the world, we post outcomes well above
national averages in the treatment of an array of fetal anomalies, from twinto-twin transfusion syndrome to myelomeningocele. Our survival rates for
congenital diaphragmatic hernia are currently the best in the nation.
Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit treats nearly 1,000 infants per year from
all over the country. Our doctors have pioneered many critical innovations
in neonatal care, and in some cases were the first in the world to use new
therapies, including surfactant replacement for premature babies’ lungs,
inhaled nitric oxide therapy for pulmonary hypertension and preventing
premature lung disease, and brain cooling for perinatal brain injury.
Our fetal care and neonatalogy programs are part of the Colorado
Institute for Maternal and Fetal Health, a unique partnership with
neighboring University of Colorado Hospital and University of Colorado
School of Medicine. This partnership provides comprehensive care for
mother and baby in five collaborative disciplines: obstetrics, maternal fetal
medicine, fetal care, neonatology, and fetal cardiology.
program highlights
oo Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, ranked sixth in the nation by U.S.
News & World Report, provides seamless transition from delivery to
neonatal care.
3 Fetal Surgeons
4 Fetal Cardiologists
26 Neonatologists
9 Maternal Fetal
Medicine Specialists
Fetoscopic Endoluminal
Tracheal Occlusion (FETO)
1 of only 2
approved FETO trial sites
1st FETO performed in the U.S.
under a new FDA investigation
device exemption
1,431
TOTAL PATIENT
VISITS IN 2015
280
oo Our center uses 3D printing based on data from fetal MRI to model
myelomeningocele defects prior to surgery, decreasing operation times
by allowing better operative planning, in addition to prefabricated
templates for the patch.
oo Ours is the only center in the world currently using Compensatory
Reserve Index Technology (See “Foretelling the Collapse,” p. 60)
to monitor fetal and maternal responses to surgery during Ex Utero
Intrapartum Treatment (EXIT) procedures, open fetal surgery, and
cesarean deliveries improving s