Pregnancy complications, premature labor or special health concerns such as gestational diabetes and high blood pressure can all be addressed with our team of experts at Avera’s maternal fetal medicine clinic in Sioux Falls. Fellowship-trained perinatologists, or physicians with expertise in managing high-risk pregnancies, care for expectant mothers in the following ways:
- Private consultations
- Genetic counseling
- First trimester screening for aneuploidy
- Prenatal diagnostic testing
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Access maternal and neonatal intensive care units (NICU) for babies born prematurely or with health issues that need special attention. Neonatal transport services are available throughout the region by Careflight air and ground ambulance. Our Level IIIB NICU at the Avera Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls is monitored 24 hours every day, offering resuscitation as early as 22 weeks’ gestation and rooms for individuals, twins and triplets.
Fellowship-trained neonatologists, pediatric specialists and other physicians with special education and training for NICU care make up your care team.
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Full spectrum, 24/7 pediatric hospital medicine and critical care are available to diagnose, treat and manage health conditions with services like:
- Advanced life support
- Breastfeeding support
- Pediatric critical care
- Pediatric procedural sedation services
- Neonatal resuscitation
- Newborn medicine
Pediatric psychiatry services offer expert care for a variety of behavioral and mental health concerns in kids and teens. Along with compassion and hope, our personalized approach is designed for individuals age 18 and younger. Some of the mental health conditions for children we treat include:
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Anxiety disorders
- Behavioral and mental health concerns
- Depression
- Suicidal behavior
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To help children feel more at ease, sedation options like intranasal medication are used instead of IVs for many procedures. Avera Children's Hospital provides other calming services, like special goggles allowing patients to watch movies while having an MRI.
Pediatric heart doctors help parents and their care teams effectively manage your child’s heart health. These pediatric specialists treat patients with innovative and minimally invasive techniques, and support expecting parents through pregnancy, so everything goes as smoothly as possible during birth. They also offer expert fetal and intensive care with specialized approaches for babies, kids and teens with heart-related conditions such as:
- Arrhythmias and palpitations
- Chest pain
- Congenital heart disease
- Heart murmur
- High cholesterol and high blood pressure
- Irregular heartbeats
- Single ventricle defects
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Avera’s pediatric critical care team helps care for seriously ill infants and children who need a high level of monitoring in a specialized inpatient unit. Some of the illnesses this team treats include:
- Cardiac failure
- Neurological emergencies such as seizures
- Respiratory failure
- Septic shock
- Traumatic injury
Pediatric critical care physicians, known as intensivists, work hand in hand with other pediatric specialists, primary care providers and nurses to coordinate the best care for your child.
Pediatric specialists with extensive training in children’s digestive health treat children and young adults from newborn to age 21 with digestive disorders including:
- Celiac disease
- Crohn’s disease
- Eosinophilic esophagitis
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Ulcerative colitis
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