SUMMARY:
When Claire Ives
was seven months pregnant with her third child, she used a hand held device to listen to her unborn son’s heartbeat. As she turned the
machine on, she thought something
didn’t work properly, because she wasn’t
listening right or something like
that. Her son had a heart rate of about 300 beats for minute, nearly double
than the normal 160.
When doctors saw
the problem of the baby, the mother had a cesarean, although she had 5 weeks
more before going into labour. When they took the child, he had a supraventricular
tachycardia (SVT), the doctors gave him little chance to live. Supraventricular
tachycardia is caused by improper electrical impulses in the heart. This can
cause heart failure or affect other organs in the body. Shortly after Edward
was born, his heart began again to beat very fast. The doctors tried to give
him medication, but they were running out of options. The doctors wanted to try
to lower the body temperature to maintain Edward’s
organs healthy and to decrease
heart rate. Doctors used a blanket of cold gel
to lower the temperature 30 degrees, this method worked.
Unfortunately the
next day as they increased the baby's body temperature the tachycardia began
again, then they lowered his body temperature again. The next day, the doctors
began to rise his temperature slowly and he was stable. A month after her
husband, Ives and Edward could go home. Edward now lives along with his parents
and siblings, but goes to the doctor to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.
OPINION:
Luckily there are people who take care of us, as doctors, they don't surrender. I didn't know this method, I thought both temperature down could be very bad. It is true that you can't maintain a person with low temperature.
It must have been hard to find the mother of your child's problem, but luckily this story ended well. Ives could take his son home and only need to get checked often.
VOCABULARY:
Lowe: baixar
Maneuvers:
maniobrar
Blanket:
manta
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