Your Ultimate Guide To Barbados

Paediatrics

The branch of medicine that deals specifically with the study of diseases in children is called paediatrics. Paediatricians are doctors whose proficiencies are targeted at focusing directly on disorders in babies, children and adolescents.

As children mature, disease management throws an interesting element on the whole topic of paediatrics. This branch of medicine has proven itself not only challenging but rewarding as a paediatrician can easily work with a baby and see it through to its teenage years.

Department of Paediatrics at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The paediatric arm of Barbados' Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is the only tertiary healthcare institution on the island equipped to treat children who are sick.

This department continues to provide optimal quality care for patients of the QEH in the areas of:

• General Paediatrics
• Paediatric Intensive Care (PICU)
• Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU)
• Post Neonatal Care

Paediatric Unit

The Unit comprises two general paediatric teams and a short stay Unit.

The general teams provide tertiary inpatient care and specialty outpatient care for paediatric patients to the age of 16 years. They will provide experience of common paediatric conditions for interns and specialty paediatric training for postgraduate students.

Short-stay Unit

This team provides short stay secondary and tertiary inpatient care for paediatric patients to the age of 16 years. It will provide experience of common paediatric conditions and specialty training for post graduate students in Paediatrics, Accident and Emergency and Family Practice. The Paediatric Unit will be responsible for all programmes related to training care and research as they relate to general paediatrics.

PICU

This Unit provides care for critically-ill children from the post neonatal period to age 16 years and supports the post operative/post procedural care of children in other specialties in the hospital such as the Division of Invasive Cardiology, Neurosurgery and Scoliosis Programme. It will provide specialist training in paediatric critical care for post-graduate residents. The Unit will be responsible for all programmes related to training, care and research as they relate to critically-ill children.

NICU

This Unit looks after newborns, from providing support to the Department of Obstetrics for antenatal foetal problems and intrapartum and postpartum emergencies through well-baby care and care of critically-ill newborns. It provides experience in the care of common newborn conditions for interns and specialty training in neonatology/perinatology for post-graduate residents. The Unit is responsible for all programmes related to training clinical care and research as they relate to newborns.

Paediatricians listed in Barbados are as follows:-