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Helping "preemies".(neonatal intensive care)(Brief article)
Mckenzie Brodnik was born six weeks prematurely 19 years ago at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. When she was taken to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, Mckenzie was given only a 10-percent chance of survival.
Miss Brodnik credits Dr. Siva Subramanian, the chief of Georgetown's NICU, with saving her life. He placed her on a then-experimental heart and lung machine--a therapy now rarely used because of improved technology. "In terms of a baby's survival with what we had then compared to now--it's day and night," Dr. Subramanian told ABC News.
Mckenzie has since visited the NICU to view the preemies in their incubators, and she wanted to do something to help the babies' parents cope with the high cost of modern life-support ...
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