The Boy Who Survived 73 Days of Pure COVID Hell
The love of parents, the dedication of his doctors, and maybe a visit from his dog helped bring Trevor Hensley back from the brink of death.
73rd day of ECMO support for COVID
On this, the 73rd day of #ecmo support for Covid, this young #pedsicu patient was decannulated.
Simulation-Based System Analysis: Testing Preparedness for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Cannulation in Pediatric COVID-19 Patients
Coronavirus Disease-2019 presents risk to both patients and medical teams. Staff-intensive, complex procedures such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) may increase chances of exposure and spread.
An Urgent Plea to Protect our Children from Covid
There are eight of us, all women, all physicians who take care of the sickest children in the nation in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) in the Midwest, the East Coast, the West Coast and the South. Some of us work in community hospitals, and some of us work at nationally rated hospitals, the kind everyone knows. The PICU is the last line of defense for children, but the system is not designed to take on this magnitude of preventable illnesses. This is what haunts us: the reality that we might not be able to care for every child who needs us. We are pro-vaccine, pro-masks and pro-child.
Covid-19 Series
She went on to specialize in pediatric medicine and then completed a 3 year fellowship in pediatric critical care. She is the doctor who takes care of the sickest of the sick kids…kids who are so sick that they wind up in the pediatric intensive care unit. She is probably someone you never want your kids to have a reason to meet, but if your kid is that sick, she is undoubtedly the person you want taking care of them.
Pneumatosis intestinalis and intestinal perforation in a case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
Patients with suspected or confirmed MIS-C should be monitored closely for abdominal catastrophe, especially when critically ill in the intensive care unit.
Covid-19 vs Flu Podcast
We've had a lot of questions from our listeners about the differences between COVID-19 and the seasonal flu. In this episode, we answer a lot of those questions. Blue Valley's Dr. Chris Jenson is joined by Jenna Miller, MD, FAAP, from Children's Mercy to discuss how these viruses can affect us, the amount of time they can continue to affect us, and how the vaccines are produced to stop them.