Cost effective measures can save 75% of the preemies who do not survive. The NICU upgrade pilot project aims to create or update one NICU in each low-income country. A select hospital in Liberia, West Africa will act as the blueprint for this project, which we plan to replicate in other low-income regions.

  *The NICU Upgrade project will also include a training workshop from a licensed neonatal professional, once the NICU is complete. THERMOREGULATION

• Isolettes with humidifier (aka incubators)
• Radiant warmers
• Themometers

RESPIRATORY

• Ventilators (for NCPAP and ETT )
• HFNC (high flow nasal cannulas)
• Oxygen tanks with regulators
• Oxygen flowmeters
• Oxygen blenders
• Pulse Oximetry machine
• Pulse Oximetry probes (neonatal nellcor)
• Oxygen tubing
• Nasal cannulas
• Nasal CPAP
• Self inflating neonatal AMBU bag
• Mapleson flow inflating ambu bag
• Endotracheal tubes sizes 3 and 3.5 (for intubation)
• Laryngoscope Intubation blades (straight and curve) sizes 00, 0 and 1
• Laryngoscope handles
• Intubation stylets
• Preemie oxygen mask
• Infant oxygen mask
• Suction machines
• Suction canisters and tubings
• Suction catheters (sizes 6, 9 10 fr)
• Bulb syringes

CARDIOVASCULAR

• EKG monitors
• Kitty Kat EKG leads
• Blood pressure monitors
• Preemie blood pressure cuffs (sizes 1 – 3)

IV AND LAB STUFF

• IV catheters ( 22, 24 gauges)
• Interlink T-connectors
• IV tubings
• IV tubings with filter
• IV infusion pumps (Baxter brand that also has channels for med infusion)
• Medication infusion pumps Syringes ( 1, 3, 6, 10, 12, 20, 35, 60 ml)

GASTROINTESTINAL

• Feeding tubes (5, 6.5, 8 fr)
• Syringe Feeding pumps (medela or Kangaroo brand)
• Syringes for feeding pumps

GENITOURINARY

• Foley catheters (sizes 6,8,10 fr)
• Foley cath drainage bag
• Urine collection bags

MISCELLANEOUS

• Accu-chek monitors
• Infant weighing scales
• Phototherapy overhead lights and phototherapy blankets