Special Services
The Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Center
The Neonatal ECMO program began supporting newborns with cardiorespiratory failure in 1988 and has provided ECMO to over 300 newborns with survival rates in excess of 80%. The Neonatal ECMO program is directed by Dr. Krisa Van Meurs and Williams Rhine and coordinated by Arlene M. Sheehan, RN, NNP, MS. ECMO patients are cared for in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by a team of 5 ECMO-trained neonatologists, 7 neonatal fellows, and 35 nurses trained as ECMO specialists. A annual ECMO training course is held in July and quarterly ECMO drills are required for both physicians and nurses.
Inhaled Nitric Oxide (INO) Program
The ability to deliver INO to neonates, infants and children with respiratory and/or cardiac disease, exists at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford (LPCH). Krisa P. Van Meurs, M.D., is the director of the program. Equipment to deliver and analyze nitric oxide and to measure nitrogen dioxide is provided at the bedside and in any of the Intensive Care Units, Operating Room, or on transport.
In addition, all diagnostic services are available at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital.
Pediatric Divisions
- Adolescent Medicine
- Allergy
- Cardiology
- Critical Care
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- General Pediatrics
- Genetics
- Hematology/Oncology
- Infectious Diseases
- Neonatal & Developmental Medicine
- Nephrology
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Stem Cell Transplantation
