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Caught between two worlds i.c.u.8/11/2023 ![]() And pediatric hospitals are feeling the strain, with more than three-quarters of their hospital and ICU beds occupied for the past few months. While for most it causes a mild illness that can be managed at home, RSV – alongside flu, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 and other common respiratory viruses – has driven an increase in hospitalizations nationwide. RSV in children: Symptoms, treatment and what parents should know ![]() Worried mom holding thermometer and touching forehead of her ill baby, checking his temperature. Since then, she’d been healthy, her father said.īut now, her fragile body was caving to one of several respiratory illnesses spreading across the US: respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, which often is most severe in young children and older adults. ![]() “My mind just froze and thought I may not get her back.”Īyra – born a preemie at just 36 weeks and 6 days – had already proved to be a fighter: Her first day on Earth was spent in the NICU because of fluid in her lungs. Still, “she was not responding to anything that they were doing,” Pokharel recalled. She took one look at baby Ayra and gave her father an order:Īcross the building he sped, his wife right behind him – to the pediatric emergency department.īy then, Ayra was sometimes not breathing at all, clinicians later told CNN. The triage nurse at Greater Baltimore Medical Center knew it, too. Other parts of her tiny body were yellow. As Abhishesh Pokharel carried his 3-week-old daughter into the emergency department, her fingers and toes were turning blue.
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