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Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Programs and Centers

Neurosciences Intensive Care Nursery

Located within the Sutland/Pakula Family Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Johns Hopkins Children’s Center’s Neurosciences Intensive Care Nursery (NICN) provides comprehensive and coordinated assessment and treatment for newborns who are at high risk of neurological injury or who have clinical evidence of developmental brain abnormalities.

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Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine nurse with baby

Clinical Expertise

Centers of Excellence

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation 

The Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program at Johns Hopkins Children's Center provides critical support for infants and children with a life-threatening illness or injury. ECMO is a life-saving heart and lung bypass system that takes over the functions of these organs, allowing physicians time to diagnose and treat critically ill or injured children and enabling their organs to heal.

The multidisciplinary ECMO team consists of highly trained respiratory therapists, perfusionists and intensivists. These specialists, along with other caregivers, treat patients receiving ECMO in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at the Hopkins Children’s Center.

ECMO Staff

Ivor David Berkowitz, MBBCH

  • Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Expertise: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Anesthesiology

Research Interests: Anesthetic implications of dwarfism, Ethics of brain death determination, Pathophysiology of the intracranial vault in bacterial meningitis.

ECMO Contact Information

Gary Oldenburg, R.R.T., coordinator: 410-614-4591 
PICU: 410-955-5260
Fax: 410-614-7441