It was believed to be Laura’s first day alone with 12-day Nash. Her fiancée Davon returned to work and her mother -in -law went home, and she was waiting for a day of cuddles and bonding time with her new little love. When he was agitated and refused to feed, and was before that night, Laura called 811 to support breastfeeding. On the second line, a quiet but quick -thoughtful nurse asked if Nash’s lips looked blue, and he was, so he said to call Laura an ambulance and head to the Alberta Children’s Hospital. It could be a sign that its oxygen was low. Within five minutes in an ambulance, Laura saw her newborn baby crash. When they took lights and siren to the hospital, Nash was taken directly to the trauma room.
When a social worker comforted Laura, doctors and nurses surrounded Nash. Suspected the first infection, they gave it antibiotics and IV fluid. Soon the pediatrician was called to the unmanned who decided that Nash was very sick and prepared Laura for the possibility of a problem with his heart, and may need to be placed on the heart and lung machine, extracoral life support (ECL). .
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Anxiety will close his heart, doctors put Nash on the breathing machine and transferred it to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The ultrasound of her heart showed that she was not working well. After that, the ECLS team went to the Nash Cardiac Arrest, as he became active. To guide the team to provide the Best quality CPR for putting on ECLS, CPR did the CPR feedback machine funded by Radiothon. ECLS was the last resort, and the only hope of Nash. And when his parents saw him in counting a lot of ropes and wires, when a machine occupied his heart and lungs, he was hoping for what they could do. Thanks, a team of pediatricians and donors helped them establish the ECLS program at our hospital in 2011 – the first pediatric Noncardiac Surgery Hospital – to do so – Nash’s life was saved on that day.
Still at the ECLS, Nash was transferred to the Stollary Children’s Hospital in Edmonton – Pediatric Cardiac Center in the province. It was found to be a heart rhythm of the supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) and was placed on the medicine. When his heart was only strong enough after three days, he was able to remove the ECL. After a total of 10 days in Edmonton, he was given leave at home.
today, Nash is rich. It is one of the 57 children who thank ECL at our hospital today. His family is grateful to participate in power hours for the sophisticated ultrasound for the ECLS program to save the lives of more children.
