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Neonatal treatment at N.C.
Memorial Hospital combines
complex technical equipmen t
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with lots of tenderloving care
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By PAM KELLEY
A poster near the special bassinet where Brandy sleeps proclaims,
"Thinkbig."
It's message is especially relevant to her. At birth Brandy weighed
almost two pounds, but like most babies she lost some weight
shortly after she was born. Now, at three months, she weighs almost
three pounds. She's less than a foot long, and she reminds one more
of a child's doll than a new born baby.
Brandy was born about three and a half months early. She is
connected by tiny tubes to machines which help her live. Her
systems weren't ready to function on their own.
Ten or 20 years ago, Brandy would hot have survived. Today
statistics show that children such as Brandy have a 95 percent
survival rate.
Brandy is staying in the neonatal intensive care unit at N.C.
Memorial Hospital. In that 12-bed unit are infants who, for a variety
of reasons, need serious medical care. Some are premature and too
small to survive on their own. Some were born with genetic defects
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which must be corrected with surgery. Others were born retarded,
and a few have problems caused by mothers who used alcohol or
drugs during pregnancy.
N.C. Memorial also has a 14-bed neonatal intermediate care unit
for babies who don't require as much as as serious medical care as
those in the intensive care unit. Both units are filled with
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