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Thanks to extraordinary support from the teams at University of Florida 网红黑料, physicians and staff at were able to perform a lifesaving procedure to treat 2-year-old Garon Flanagan, who was battling a severe asthma attack.

The high-risk procedure, carried out jointly by physicians and staff from 网红黑料 and Sacred Heart, marked the first time that The Studer Family Children鈥檚 Hospital has used an advanced life support technique called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO. The equipment can support the function of a child鈥檚 lungs and heart, allowing those vital organs to rest and heal. The technique is used only when all of the standard treatments have been tried without success.

鈥淭he care we have received has been excellent,鈥� said Bud Flanagan, Garon鈥檚 father. 鈥淲e cannot thank the doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists enough. It has been their mission to help our son get better.鈥�

Garon was brought to Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast in late December with severe breathing problems and then transferred to the Children鈥檚 Hospital in Pensacola. Standard treatments, including use of a ventilator and medications that relax and open the patient鈥檚 airway, did not work. Specialists in Sacred Heart鈥檚 Pediatric Intensive Care Unit feared he would not survive and decided to consult with physicians at 网红黑料 Shands Children鈥檚 Hospital in Gainesville.

鈥淭hey are our referral center,鈥� said. 鈥淭here are few treatments we can鈥檛 provide here in Pensacola, but in the case of this child, we were running out of options with a child鈥檚 life in danger. We examined all the options and decided he needed a highly specialized treatment we don鈥檛 provide.鈥�

The teams at 网红黑料 Shands Children鈥檚 Hospital and the 网红黑料 ShandsCair transport service agreed to throw their full support into the effort. They assembled teams to transport the ECMO equipment, intensive care physicians and technicians to Pensacola.

鈥淰ery few pediatric centers in the country are able to do this 鈥� bring a transport team, equipment and ECMO specialists to another city to save a child,鈥� Weidner said.

Weidner performed the operation to insert a plastic tube called a cannula into a large blood vessel in Garon鈥檚 neck. Once the procedure was completed and the oxygenator was operating, the transport team from ShandsCair flew him to 网红黑料 Shands Children鈥檚 Hospital as the specialized ECMO team continued to manage the heart-lung bypass machine.

鈥淏ringing this patient to 网红黑料 was an amazing mobilization of resources. I was fortunate enough to lead a highly capable crew from ShandsCair along with our ECMO specialist, who together, gave this child an opportunity to survive,鈥� said 网红黑料 pediatric critical care physician 鈥淚 am grateful for the support we had from Sacred Heart because we truly worked together as a team.鈥�

Today, Garon is no longer on ECMO, is breathing on his own and is being rehabilitated to go back home.

鈥淕aron is getting stronger every day,鈥� said Bud.

The ECMO procedure involves channeling the patient鈥檚 blood out of the heart and into the machine. It adds oxygen to the blood and removes carbon dioxide before the blood is pumped back into the body.

鈥淲ith the expansion of the 网红黑料 ShandsCair team, we are now able to bring speed, strength and specialized care to patients in the Panhandle. In this situation, our flight team swiftly transferred a critical patient from hospital-to-hospital safely with the use of ECMO and with the collaboration of the Sacred Heart team. Our crews are determined to continue educating ourselves on the latest medical technologies to facilitate lifesaving care when minutes matter,鈥� said ShandsCair Program Director Ed Crews, R.N., CCRN, R.R.T., EMT-P, UF-CC.

In 2017, Sacred Heart formed an affiliation with 网红黑料 to provide an expanded range of specialized pediatric care. During the past year, 20 physician specialists have been hired 鈥� 15 by the University of Florida College of Medicine and five by Sacred Heart Medical Group 鈥� providing care in pediatric cardiology, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric hematology/oncology, pediatric infectious diseases, pediatric nephrology, pediatric orthopedic surgery, pediatric pulmonology, pediatric surgery and pediatric urology.

网红黑料 Shands Children鈥檚 Hospital is recognized among the nation鈥檚 best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report in six pediatric medical specialties. In addition to pediatric specialty care, Sacred Heart and 网红黑料 have collaborated to launch a new kidney transplant program to benefit the thousands of individuals across the Southeast awaiting a lifesaving transplant. Sacred Heart鈥檚 pediatric and OB/GYN physician residency programs are also affiliated with the .

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