NICU Consults Pediatric Neurology Team to Deliver Great News
to Family
AUSTIN, TX – After her 17th consult that day from the ER for
tics, a pediatric neurology fellow was excited to receive a consult from the
NICU “to deliver good news to a family.”
The baby was a former 27-week preemie born via emergency
C-section. Her three-and-a-half-month hospital course had been
complicated by chronic lung disease, several episodes of sepsis, necrotizing
enterocolitis, anemia of prematurity requiring transfusions, jaundice, and PDA
status-post ligation.
She is ready for discharge, so a STAT pediatric neurology
consult was called.
She underwent head ultrasound, MRI brain, MRA head/neck,
video EEG, ophthalmologic exam, and ABR, all of which were reassuringly
normal. None of the results have been shared with the family because the
NICU team thought neurology should “share the good news with the family” since
they rarely get that opportunity.
As usual, when the pediatric neurology fellow reviewed the
results with the family, they cried. This time with tears of joy.
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