Serious Illness is a Journey No One Should Make Alone. You Need a Team.
<p><strong>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.</strong></p>
<p>That may be the most gut-wrenching case summary I’ve ever read.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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