Wednesday, February 17, 2010

It is midnight and I am ready for bed. We just finished taking care of an 11 month old girl with bad pneumonia and wheezing. She was admitted in the afternoon, and when we made evening rounds she was worse. We took her to a treatment room in the clinic because trying to treat her in a crowded tent just wouldn't work. At home she would have been in some kind of monitored area, Here she is in a hot crowded tent with about 10 other patients sleeping on pads on the floor with several family members each. Her oxygen level was only 88% but with some aggressive therapy she is a bit better. If we hadn't gone to check her, I am not sure she would have survived.

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