Kim Lewis-McClellan knew something was wrong with her 7-year-old son when he came to spend Christmas 2007 with her in Illinois. The boy, who had been living with his father in Las Vegas, complained of stomachaches and exhibited asthmatic symptoms.
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From 2006 to 2009 in Clark County, 95 babies less than 12 months old died because bedding or stuffed animals or some other object didn’t allow them to breathe. “We need to find a way to decrease these deaths,” said Dr. Andrew Eisen, chairman of the Clark County Child Death Review Team, which meets monthly to assess and analyze cases involving the death of any child under 18.
By MICHELLE ALEJANDRA BOOTH
Merysa Lozada, a 4-year-old leukemia patient at Children’s Hospital of Nevada, colors a hat she is designing. A nonprofit called Coloring for Chemo/Comfort has given hundreds of coloring books and boxes of crayons to a number of medical institutions.
Out of nursing school for just a few months, 24-year-old Elizabeth Martinez already realizes how easy it would be to burn out. Or to make a mistake that can mean the difference between life and death.
Analysis of catheter lines that came apart in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Sunrise Children’s Hospital — when it was done and how thoroughly — is at the center of new criticism from national safety experts.
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Many breast cancer survivors would tell you that the day they were diagnosed was the hardest day of their lives. For Brandi Ellis, a Las Vegas mother of three diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma in May 2020, the first thing she did was walk downstairs to tell her family — her “first line of defense,” as she calls them.