All Posts Tagged With: "Neonatal Intensive Care Unit"

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19
Jun
2009

25 Weeker Fitted With An External Pacemaker

In a world first, tiny Taylor Gardner has been fitted with a pacemaker bigger than her fragile body.

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30
May
2009

12-Ounce Baby Beats Odds at Pittsburgh Hospital

Against all odds Taylor Maree arrived by C-section on March 12 weighing just 350 grams, which is almost 12 ounces.
The doctors could hardly believe their eyes.

“When she popped out they were really astounded at how tiny she was,” according to the NICU’s director, Dr. Jennifer Kloezs.

At birth she was whisked away the second she [...]

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28
May
2009

Doctors Remove 2lb Tumor From Baby’s Face

Doctors in Miami worked quickly minutes after Jordan Jamal Smith was born in March, to remove a 1.8-pound mound of liquid and tissue protruding from the newborn’s mouth that covered his eyes and nose, his cheeks and forehead.

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