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Neonatal intensive care unit
A neonatal intensive care unit, usually shortened NICU and also called a newborn intensive care unit, special care baby unit (SCBU, especially in Great Britain), is a unit of a hospital specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. Many Canadian hospitals have a special care nursery (SCN) for the care of premature infants, while infants and children requiring intensive care for illness or injury which cannot be treated in a standard hospital are transferred to the nearest children's hospital, where pediatric intensive care units (PICU) are separate from the SCN.
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