Neonatal intensive care unit
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![A newborn infant sleeping in an isolette](/Images/godic/202501/06/Human_Infant_in_Incubator2917.jpg")
![A pediatric nurse checking recently born triplets in an incubator at ECWA Evangel Hospital, Jos, Nigeria](/Images/godic/202501/06/Nurse_checking_triplets2917.jpg")
![Stéphane Tarnier](/Images/godic/202501/06/Stéphane_Tarnier2917.jpg")
![Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0712-025, Berlin, Krankenhaus](/Images/godic/202501/06/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-0712-025,_Berlin,_Krankenhaus_Oskar-Ziethen,_Kinderkrankenhaus2917.jpg")
A neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU), also known as an intensive care nursery (ICN), is an intensive-care unit specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. The first American newborn intensive care unit, designed by Louis Gluck, was opened in October 1960 at Yale–New Haven Hospital, Connecticut.