Araceli Avila watched as her daughter played in the dentist's waiting room, minutes later, the mother saw an ambulance arrive. The mother took her three-year-old daughter, Daleyza Avila-Hernandez, to Children’s Dental Surgery in Stockton, California, to have her teeth fixed, 30 minutes later, tragedy struck according to CBS13. Avila said: “When I was in the waiting room, I saw the ambulance. I stood up to see and I thought to myself they are here for a child but never thought it was my child.” Daleyza's parents had no reason to think anything would happen to their daughter during her dental surgery, but the ambulance was for her. FOX40 reports Her father, Jose Hernandez, saw a smiling child head off to have her teeth worked on: “When we left for the hospital she ran after me, got into the van, and she was very happy.” …show more content…
The parents didn't know their child was fighting for her life because they could not be in the room during the surgery. The administrator of Children's Dental Surgery Center in Stockton, David Thompson, tells FOX40: "It’s considered a clean room and so parents can’t actually walk back in there with their street clothes on and things like that." The parents are still waiting to find out the reason why their little girl lost her life during the dental
On November 26, 2013, Mrs. Marlise Munoz was found by her husband, Erick Munoz unconscious on the family’s kitchen floor. Marlise Munoz was 14 weeks pregnant at the time she was pronounced brain dead by the doctors at John Peter Smith hospital in Texas. Both Mrs. Munoz and her husband Erick Munoz were EMTs and talked about their wishes should they become ill in the future. Both expressed the desire not to be placed on life support. With no formal written advanced directive, Erick Munoz was the surrogate for his wife. Marlise’s family continued to side with the Erick during this most difficult time.
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In 1983, Nancy Beth Cruzan lapsed into an irreversible coma from an auto accident in Jasper County, Missouri. Cruzan was discovered lying face down in a ditch without detectable respiratory or cardiac function. Paramedics were able to restore her breathing and heartbeat at the accident site, and she was transported to a hospital in an unconscious state. An attending neurosurgeon diagnosed her as having sustained cerebral injuries combined with significant lack of oxygen. The estimated length of the period without oxygen was twelve to fourteen minutes. (Permanent brain damage generally results after six minutes without oxygen.) After the accident Nancy was not breathing on her own and was connected to a machine, five days later she was breathing on her own and the respirator was disconnected. She remained in a coma for approximately three weeks and then progressed to an unconscious state in which she was able to orally ingest some nutrition. She was moved out of ICU into a private room where the family tried on a daily basis to get a response. In order to ease feeding and further the recovery, surgeons implanted a gastrostomy feeding and hydration tube in Cruzan with the consent of her then husband. Nancy's parents Joe (Lester) and Joyce stayed at the hospital around the clock sleeping on couches and chairs. Her sister Chris visited as much as she could while her two daughters Miranda and Angie were in school. Nancy and Chris were be...
2)"If i hadn't seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, i'd never believe he's my son."
Receiving a call about an abandoned car, Cindy and George Anthony started feeling that something is wrong. They rushed to pick it up and as Cindy opens the car’s door, a foul smell instantly envelops the thin air. Skeptical because of this, they look for their daughter, Casey to ask what happened. Casey finally broke down and confirms that her daughter, Caylee has been missing for a month now. Devastated, Cindy called 911 to report this tragic event. Casey blamed an apparent nanny of kidnapping Caylee. Turned out, the said nanny does not exist. One day, remains of a body was reported found in a wooded area near the Anthony’s house. After months and months of searching for the lost child, it is revealed that the dead body unfortunately belongs
Lewis Blackman was a fifteen year old boy whose death was triggered by the numerous errors caused by his healthcare professionals. He was suffering from a Pectus Excavatum, a non-life threatening condition. His mother, Helen Haskell, was attracted to an advertised surgery that boasted all the benefits of the procedure without proclaiming the risks. He checked into the Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Hospital on November 2nd, 2000, to undergo this “safe and minimally invasive” procedure. Complications arose following the surgery, but they were not communicated effectively within the nursing co...
There were many days that passed when I felt as though I wasn’t going to make it and I felt as though I didn’t deserve to be alive, but who is really ready to take care of a child anyhow? I wasn’t. Then one day I woke up and realized that my life would go on, and that I just had to do the best I could and learn from my mistakes.
Author Christine Mitchell’s “When Living is a Fate Worse Than Death” told the story of a girl Haitian named Charlotte. Charlotte was born with her brain partially positioned outside of her cranium which had to be removed or she would have not survived. Her skull had to be concealed by a wrap in order not to cause further damage. Charlotte was born with less brain cells which allowed her only to breath and not feel much of the pain. Charlotte’s parents thought that the doctor’s in Haiti did not know what was best for their daughter. The doctors in Haiti thought Charlotte should not be resuscitated, undergo anymore horrible treatments and die peacefully. Charlotte’s parents were not happy with the doctor’s guidelines and thought the United States medical care would have better technology and could save their daughter. Charlotte’s parents bought her a doll which
With the guidance of their physician, Baby Does’ parents chose to withhold medical care and surgery due to the conclusion still leaving the child with severe retardation. “Officials at the hospital had the Indiana Juvenile Courts appoint a guardian to determine whether or not to perform the surgery. The court finally ruled in favor of the parents and upheld their right to informed medical decision” (Resnik, 2011). Because of the decision made to withhold surgery and medical care, Baby Doe died five days later of dehydration and pneumonia.
ethical dilemma. The parent decided that because they work at the local hospital they could
Then they got back home. His parents had to leave for work, so they left a seven years old boy alone. They weren’t worry because he was capable and smart. Couple minutes after he went to play with his
"He would come back some day; they couldn’t make him pay forever. But he wanted his child, and nothing was much good now, beside that fact. He wasn’t young any more, with a lot of nice thoughts and dreams to have by himself. He was absolutely sure Helen wouldn’t have wanted him to be so alone."
We don’t know if that child survived or not, but what we do know is don’t let one thing take control of your life where you forget everything else or everyone else.
A newlywed couple is expecting their first child. In her seventh month of pregnancy, the mother is driving to her doctor’s appointment. All of the sudden, she is hit on the driver’s side. She is unconscious and quickly rushed to the hospital. The doctor examines her; her placenta is ruptured. The doctor contacts the father for consent of the emergency caesarean section since the mother is incapacitated. The mother and child are in fatal danger if the doctor does not move quickly. The father consents to the surgery. Once the father arrives at the hospital, he is not allowed in the operating room. As he waits, the doctor comes out and tells him of his child’s birth. However, there were complications, so the child was in the Neonatal Intensive
What once seemed like a typical accident of an eight-year-old girl on her bike, seems to be a cover up story for what is suspected to be child abuse. With a review of the patients complete dental record history, it