Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 23, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba a6 Winnipeg free press monday october 23, 2006 Manitoba 25 years dedicated to saving babies Hsc neonatal team works miracles by Jen Skerritt by the numbers s seconds after giving birth to. Since 1981, there have been an what she thought was a healthy average of 232 baby transports a baby boy Elaine Vincent realized year. Something was terribly wrong. 60 per cent of Transfer babies Are it was oct. 31, 1985, and doctors at boys. The Pine Falls general Hospital were. Close to 70 per cent of babies Are in a frenzy trying to keep him alive. Suffering from some kind of Respi Vincent a son was born with Meconi oratory distress. Others have ail us aspiration syndrome ? a severe con ments ranging from pneumonia edition that can be fatal to newborns. The and cardiac trouble. Baby inhaled a mixture of his first fees. 86 per cent of babies survive and and amniotic fluid during delivery. Are later discharged from Hospital. He could to breathe on his own and medical staff frantically tried to keep the baby alive by pumping air into his drive or Fly to Rural locations armed lungs. A nurse baptized the baby and with mini neonatal intensive care uni named him Christopher in Hospital equipment. In the majority of cases thinking he was going to die. The team responds in less than two it was just crazy Vincent said not hours stabilizes the baby and trans ing Christopher started turning Blue ports them Back to the Hsc or St. Boni from a Lack of oxygen. I knew it was face general Hospital in Winnipeg. Pretty last week the transport team Cele Pine Falls general Hospital immedi rated its 25th anniversary. Since 1981, lately phoned the health sciences Cen they have transported nearly 5,800 sick re based Manitoba neonatal transport babies from Rural Manitoba to win team ? where groups of three usual Nipes sent them to other hospitals outly consisting of a physician nurse and of province and coordinated Airport respiratory therapist have been pickups of sick babies coming from responding to emergency paediatric outside the province. Calls across Manitoba and Northwest the majority of babies suffer Fromen Ontario since 1981. Some form of respiratory distress like depending on the location teams Christopher while others have ailments free press photo reprints make unique and personalized gifts family photos Christopher Vincent As a Newborn in october 1985, and today thanks to the help of the neonatal transport team. Ranging from pneumonia to cardiac team used a device to pump air by hand doctors told the Vincent family Christo trouble. To make Christopher breathe. Pher would never be Able to play sports or. Rebecca Caces who is now the shortly after 6 a.m., Christopher and would struggle in school from the medical director of the transport team arrived at Hsc and was hooked up to a brain damage he experienced. Responded to the Call from Pine Falls Respirator. Today Christopher 20, lives in Cal along with two nurses. At Midnight the by nov. 4, 1985, Vincent and her Hus Gary and is finishing his apprenticeship team sped off into a snowstorm in an band Lionel prepared to say goodbye As a millwright. He was an a student ambulance equipped with a transport to Christopher. His condition was wors throughout High school and started incubator heart and blood pressure ening since he had suffered some playing hockey when he was five. Monitor and drugs. Bleeding in the brain. The family called Christopher said he always Felt like a Caces said Christopher was one of for a priest. Normal kid growing up and did to Hes the sickest babies the transport team a doctor came in and said mrs. Vin state to go dirt biking snowmobiling or has Ever seen and figured he Only had cent i a not a religious Man but a 10 per cent Chance of recovering. There a been a Miracle Vincent said. I grew up Day to Day like any other he was at deaths door she said. Christopher began to recover slow kid he said. I never had to go to any we did to think he would make by and was released from Hospital after follow up Caces said tensions were High Dur spending 30 Days hooked up to a Respi. ing the drive Back to Winnipeg As the Rator. Despite his miraculous survival women urged Silhouette David Reith to get tested for cervical cancer clinics across the province Are crack ing Down on cervical cancer this week by rolling out a Campaign to encourage More women to get Pap tests. Every Day the free press publishes dozens see me for a great Deal 181 Stra Brook Avenue pm. 774-1700 monday Marks the Start of the fourth annual Pap awareness week in Manitoba and 75 clinics and nursing stations across the province Are offering walk in Pap appointments in an attempt to get More women screened. Or. Robert Lotocki medical director of the Manitoba cervical cancer screen ing program said regular Pap tests can reduce a woman Schance of getting cer Vical cancer by up to 70 per cent. During the test doctors take cell samples from inside the cervix that Are later examined under a Microscope to determine any abnormalities. Id love to be out of business Lotocki said. Id love to see women get Pap tests just so i Don to have to see women with cervical each year in Manitoba 66 women Are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 15 will die. While 60 per cent of women in the province Are getting tested regularly Lotocki said that still leaves another 40 per cent who Arent. 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