Pregnant woman with swine flu dies after delivery, baby fine
Posted: Oct 02, 2009 1:54 PM MST Updated: Oct 02, 2009 1:55 PM MST
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By Hannah Horne
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A pregnant woman died after delivering a baby within the last week. The woman had swine flu, according to her doctor.
A University of South Carolina School of Medicine doctor said the baby was delivered successfully and is doing well. So far it’s unclear whether the infant has the H1N1 virus.
Privacy laws protect the woman’s identity and specific information about her condition or treatment.
Driscoll Children’s Hospital Begins Triage
Updated: Oct 2, 2009 03:19 PM
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Driscoll Children’s Hospital started a process called triage to help ease overcrowding in the emergency room.
Since this summer, the number of children diagnosed with swine flu started to increase and so did the wait time in the emergency room.
Some parents have been waiting up to 10 hours to see a doctor. However, the triage plan should help with that.
Now, patients will be screened as soon as they walk through the doors. From there, they’ll be sent to the auditorium and then they’ll go to another area to be treated, depending on the seriousness of their illness.
The plan is to make sure the sickest children get cared for as soon as possible.
“By doing this it’s almost like an assembly line kind of approach to get all the patients in and out as fast as we can,” Driscoll Children’s Hospital Doctor Karl Serrao said.