2-month-old female infant with massive global damage to brain cortex after cardiac arrest secondary to H. influenzae A meningitis. Brain injury is devastating with no chance for meaningful neurological recovery.
That may be the most gut-wrenching case summary I’ve ever read.
But for the three community health aides in the remote Alaska Native village where this baby’s family lived, it was terrifying. They faced the responsibility of caring long-term for this infant whose life they saved after she had a heart attack brought on by meningitis. Emergency personnel evacuated the child to Anchorage, where she was hospitalized and placed on a ventilator.