The draft intensive care law addresses newborn
When Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) presented legislation recently required hospitals to reveal their ability to save premature infants, the worst nightmare was revealed to all parents. We play with the lives of our children in hospitals that may not be equipped to save them. Cotton’s transparency law is vital, but it is part of a larger case – 2100 children die annually in emergency rooms also not ready – and these emergency situations can strike any family, at any time.
“It is just a common cold, you can take it home – I need to reach the real emergency in the hall.” These words may be chased for nearly 18 years, which cost my only daughter Rebecca her life. She was a few days old.
The story of my daughter emphasizes the same national crisis that prompted Koton’s legislation: Most hospitals are not ready to care for our children when it is more important. Rebecca was one of more than 2,100 children who could have saved their lives if Ers was prepared for children’s patients.
More than 30 million children visited ER annually, however the average degree of emergency preparedness for children in AD+Hospitals, according to the evaluation of a project to prepare for children. These systemic failures have been well documented in the medical community for decades-a crisis hidden from the parents until they occur to them.
On July 20, 2006, Rebecca suffered from hard breathing, and the appetite and severe lethargy decreased. We rushed it to the emergency department for children in our local ER, and she was diagnosed with a cold and sent home, despite a seam for help. Rebecca died less than 24 hours after the discharge. The autopsy has included the cause of death as bowel and stinking viruses, which can be recognized by training in the right and processing of children. She was still alive today.
We have learned that we are not alone. Three -year -old Affiri died of Texas after he was incorrectly deduced with adult breathing tubes. Mason, four -year -old, suffered from Detroit for long -term damage to the lung from the delay in the diagnosis of the intestine. The lack of training in children, equipment and coordination led to ERS and EMS services to the wrong diagnosis or lack of attention to young patients whose bodies require different needs from adults.
If we need transparency to stirring in the intensive care units of newborns, then why not more than 30 million children visit Ers annually? We will not take a plane with our family if we know that the airline was lacking training or appropriate equipment – however we entrust the lives of our children to hospitals without asking these same questions. If more than 2,100 Americans died in a plane accident annually, we will demand appropriate answers and training. So why do we allow our health care system to claim thousands of children?
While political makers suggest extensive tax credits to children, $ 5,000 “children’s rewards” at affordable prices in the laboratory to support American families, they critically ignore a basic safety crisis that affects our children today. Cotton’s transparency bill realizes that parents deserve to know the capabilities of the hospital before they strike emergency situations. This principle should be applied to all emergency situations in children. Shouldn’t we give priority to protect our basic children – to survive in a medical emergency?
The solution is to save life and incredibly effective. While cotton addresses the requirements for detecting intensive care units for newborns, implementing comprehensive pediatric preparations costs $ 0-12 for a child-much less than other family policy proposals currently under study. There are proven guidelines and reasonable prices created by medical experts to prepare all emergency systems and employees for children’s emergency conditions, however 83 percent of American hospitals are unprecedented and indisputable.
My husband and I have created the RBY Foundation in honor of Rebecca, to ensure that every child gets the best possible care, so another family does not have to carry what we have tried. Rebecca had reached 18 this year. I missed the opportunity to know my daughter because she had no opportunity to live. Instead of celebrating her life, he grieved for what it could have been, learning to live with a broken heart.
Legislators who support the law of newborn care must also slow the comprehensive standards of emergency preparedness for children – because every child, not only premature children, deserves hospitals that can save their lives. Congress must pass legislation that requires all hospitals to meet the basic standards.More than 2100 deaths annually are not just statistics – they represent real children, real families have changed forever. Families like Lee.
Satisfaction comes from devastating consequences, and we can no longer ignore the urgent need to change in emergency health care in children. The real emergency is not “below the hall”, as it occurs directly in front of us, in every state and can be completely prevented. Politicians and change makers need to know that we bear them. I urge each member of the Congress to support the emergency alert legislation for children in this session. We owe this to our children, which is 2,100 children who will die this year without repairing this crisis, and I owe Rebecca.
Phyllis Rabinowitz is the co -founder and president of Raby Foundation, a national organization dedicated to improving the emergency care standards for children.
