A Specialist in Neonatal Intensive Care
Alison Becker PA-C specializes in neonatal intensive care.
In conjunction with the neonatologists and other team members, she is responsible for the day-to-day care management of critically ill neonates for the in-patient NICU.
Becker treats the following conditions:
- Apnea of prematurity
- Developmental support gastrointestinal surgical emergencies (NEC, TE fistula, diaphragmatic hernia)
- Genetic and metabolic disorders
- Hematologic conditions (hydrops, erythroblastosis fetalis, hyperbilirubinemia)
- NAS and withdrawal management
- Neonatal/infant chronic care and chronic respiratory support
- Neonatal sepsis
- Neurological conditions
- Nutrition and feeding support/management
- Prematurity
- 23 weeks-37 weeks’ gestation
- Perinatal depression/hypoxic
- Ischemic encephalopathy
- Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the neonate
- Respiratory distress/failure
- Retinopathy of prematurity
- Resuscitation and stabilization at birth
In addition to the conditions she treats, Beck also offers the following services:
- Airway placement and management
- Respiratory support modes
- High frequency and conventional ventilation
- Chest tube placement
- Thoracentesis
- Needle aspiration
- Conscious sedation management and administration exchange transfusion
- Hypothermia treatment for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
- Palliative care management for the neonatal population
- Prescriptive privileges/medication management
- Resuscitation and stabilization
- PICCs
- Central venous lines
Speaks: English