Very interesting, I haven't had much contact with people in Alaska over this topic--we have 85 beds with x-ray and a few other nicknacks as well as the capability to have up to three kids on ECMO.
It could be the difference in hospitals or the area...my aunt is a respiratory therapist in Wichita, KS in their ICN and they have maybe...5 beds? They fly kids to us pretty consistently.
Both hospitals don't have problems staffing...young nurses seem to love working with babies down here. We do have difficulty staffing ECMO though.
It doesn't improve birth rate--I wrote my comment at 2am after working *laughs*.
Only certain levels of hospitals are capable of handling certain procedures/patients, like cancer etc. We have two helicopter pads just to accept children from Chicago, Minneapolis and other cities around here. If incubators were more affordable, these hospitals could therefore afford to treat patients without being as stingy.
example: "this kid is not sick enough to fly overnight to kansas city".
In most hospital settings, incubators and other intensive care nursery machines are the limiting reagent--not staff or docs.
I work at Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics in the ICN and I can tell you from first hand every day experience that creating affordable incubators that can be brought into lesser hospitals would dramatically help what is an increasingly high premature birth rate here in the Midwest.
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Very interesting, I haven't had much contact with people in Alaska over this topic--we have 85 beds with x-ray and a few other nicknacks as well as the capability to have up to three kids on ECMO. It could be the difference in hospitals or the area...my aunt is a respiratory therapist in Wichita, KS in their ICN and they have maybe...5 beds? They fly kids to us pretty consistently. Both hospitals don't have problems staffing...young nurses seem to love working with babies down here. We do have difficulty staffing ECMO though.
It doesn't improve birth rate--I wrote my comment at 2am after working *laughs*. Only certain levels of hospitals are capable of handling certain procedures/patients, like cancer etc. We have two helicopter pads just to accept children from Chicago, Minneapolis and other cities around here. If incubators were more affordable, these hospitals could therefore afford to treat patients without being as stingy. example: "this kid is not sick enough to fly overnight to kansas city". In most hospital settings, incubators and other intensive care nursery machines are the limiting reagent--not staff or docs.
I work at Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics in the ICN and I can tell you from first hand every day experience that creating affordable incubators that can be brought into lesser hospitals would dramatically help what is an increasingly high premature birth rate here in the Midwest.