Infectious Disease

The Pediatric Infectious diseases service has an active consultative service responsible for a wide range of individual ID and epidemiologic issues associated with a very busy tertiary care children’s hospital.  The team is routinely involved in the diagnosis and management of infections in children with complex underlying illnesses, such as stem cell and solid organ transplantation, complex congenital heart disease and prematurity as well as community-acquired infections in otherwise healthy children.  Inpatients and outpatients are followed including a twice monthly ID clinic and busy hospital service that includes student and resident rotators participating in month-long electives.

Frequent consultations for antibiotic management are requested.  This includes an antibiotic control program which mandates ID approval for restricted antimicrobial agents. The service follows infections following organ transplantation, catheter-related sepsis, shunt infections, neonatal sepsis, sepsis in immunocompromised children, endocarditis, tuberculosis, osteomyelitis, pneumonia, AIDS, post-operative wound infections and congenital or neonatal viral infections.  Drs. Foca and Neu have the major responsibility for consultations in Pediatric Infectious Diseases in affiliated hospitals including Nyack Hospital and St. Barnabas Hospital.