Educating Mothers to Detect Signs of Congenital Pediatric Conditions in an Effort to Strengthen Pediatric Surgical Systems in LMICS

A male child was born on 11/11/2016 in the largest pediatric government hospital in the entire state of Tamil Nadu, India. This hospital provides care for children from low socio-economic backgrounds and is a free hospital. The baby was born with esophageal atresia, tracheoesophageal fistula, respiratory failure of newborn, and septicemia of newborn. Surgery was performed on the newborn, including lung decortication, ligation esophagus, laparotomy, and duodenoduodenostomy. The patient was not kept in the NICU post operation and died 4 days later.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research