Sunday, November 11, 2012

Other Ethiopia memories--happy and sad

our most accepted improvements:
CPAP a new way and aluminum foil to help treat hyperbilirubinemia.
No surgical deaths while we were there.  We were given some credit for that, sort of some magic.

Our first CPAP baby with new design

same + chin strap
phototherapy with aluminum on sides to increase surface area exposure
Her mom watched over her baby who had
spontaneous ilial perforation...both will soon be going home
Two sad babies who died.

This premie most likely had a midgut volvulus
Diagnosed as sepsis...died a few hours after this x-ray.  I feel bad
because there was similar distention the day before on an x=ray
and I saw that one.  I should have recognized it.  

This little ex-premie with rickets at 7 months
died of pneumonia and respiratory failure




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