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Level 2- special care nursery (relatively healthy newborns)
Level 3- complex and very sick babies (vented, drips, life threatening)
Level 4- critically ill, often for very specialized surgeries that a level 3 does not have the resources to handle. Such as cardiac surgery.
Level 4 is the highest acuity NICU
jamisaurus
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Can someone explain to me the different level systems that NICUs work on? Is it level 4 is the highest? Or reverse? And then you have special care nurseries-- are they considered the same thing as NICUs? I'm confused. Thanks!