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- From: garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin)
- Subject: Re: Good News from a Premie!
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:04:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.215328.23775@noao.edu> 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.
-
- Your point wasn't that she was tiny, though, Suzanne, it
- was that she was of an earlier gestational age than was
- previously thought to be viable.
-
- I join the rest of t.a. in awaiting your comments on the
- gestational age estimated by the doctors who attended her.
- Could you also provide us with the source of your erroneous
- estimate?
-
- #** 15 ounces ** As human and thriving as the rest of us.
-
- This is hardly the first case of an infant that small surviving.
- While weight is used to estimate gestational age, it is not
- the only factor.
-
- ## Could you elaborate on the "lung treatment," Suzanne?
- #
- #From what my officemate told me of they what treated her nephew with, it's a
- #synthetic lung secretion to make up for the one lacking in such young premies,
- #without which many have terrible lung problems.
-
- Thanks. Nyikos has elaborated a bit, too. I'll look it up.
-
- Susan
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