During my third-year pediatric rotation, I would stay up late at night in the hospital, holding sick and dying children.
I went to bed last night with tears in my eyes, the words, smile and spirit of 8-year-old Zion Harvey, the world's first pediatric double hand transplant recipient, lingering in my mind.
Three years ago, Cripe was instrumental in bringing about one of the first pediatric heart transplants given to a Duchenne child.
When Wolfe founded PACT, in 1997, it was one of the first pediatric palliative-care programs in the United States.
When it opens its doors to the first pediatric patients and their families in March, the George Mark Children's House will become the only independent site in the country to provide medical child care and end-of-life management for children.
What's next?" said Dr. Lyle Micheli, an orthopedic surgeon and founder of the first pediatric sports medicine clinic in the United States at Children's Hospital in Boston.
Dhaka Children's Hospital boasts the country's first pediatric emergency room and a special treatment center for children suffering from thalassemia, a genetic blood disorder.
After training in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology at the Harriet Lane Home of Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Helen Taussig, Milt was the first pediatric cardiologist in New Jersey and opened the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
When the Undiagnosed Diseases Program's first pediatric patient, 2 1/2-year-old Ragan Thursby of Florida, was admitted in October, Gahl said he thought he recognized the signs of parents who would go too far, to the point of pursuing every diagnostic option, spending money they didn't have and shortchanging Ragan's healthy older sister.
It is the first pediatric study that shows a reduction of extubation failure by using a specific mechanical ventilator weaning protocol.
