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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Subject: Re: Good News from a Premie!
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- References: <Bu1Dxw.ABu.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Sep10.215328.23775@noao.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:37:58 GMT
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- forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
-
- >From article <Bu1Dxw.ABu.2@cs.cmu.edu>, by garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin):
- >>
- >> While I'm glad that the child survived, and hope that she truly
- >> has no ill effects, I feel that I do need to point out that it
- >> is possible to misjudge gestational age by up to four weeks.
- >> (That was the justification for allowing mandatory viability
- >> testing at 20 weeks in the Webster decision.)
- >
- >While teams of medical doctors working on a premie in the neonatal intensive
- >care ward could ~conceivably~ get a child's gestational age wrong, they sure
- >as heck will get her weight right.
-
- >** 15 ounces ** As human and thriving as the rest of us.
-
- Well, according to the neonatoligist that checked out my new son, the
- child's gestational age was just shy of 26 weeks. How does he know? He is
- good frinds with the head of the team in Florida that saved this child.
- Don't believe me? Call Edward Hospital in Naperville, IL, and ask for Dr.
- Hernandez. He'll give you the whole scoop.
-
- Suzanne is correct that the lungs were underdeveloped. And a specialized
- treatment was used (it involved some form of solution being put into the
- lungs).
-
- -Steve
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