Helicopter Landings at Children's Hospital
April-June 1998

Landing Location Summary
April-June 1998

Date	Landing	Departure	Transported From	Age	Diagnosis	Receiving Unit	Outcome (as of 1/30/98)
April
2	2:00 AM	3:50 AM	Bremerton Naval Hospital	Newborn	Congenital diaphramatic hernia	IICU	Died 5/5/98
7	5:24 PM	6:24 PM	Skagit Valley Medical Center	Infant	Bronchiolitis, pneumonia	IICU	Hospitalized 8 days
9	12:30 AM	1:21 AM	Bremerton Naval Hospital	Newborn	Meconium aspiration, pneumothorax	IICU	Hospitalized 4 days
21	7:38 PM	8:29 PM	St. Peter's, Olympia	Teen	Acute pancreatitis, hypovolemic shock	PICU	Hospitalized 6 days
30	6:11 PM	7:15 PM	Kittitas Valley, Ellensburg	Newborn	Coarctation of aorta, ventricular septal defect	IICU	Hospitalized 13 days
May
1	6:32 PM	7:25 PM	Auburn General	Newborn	Congenital diaphramatic hernia	IICU	Died 6/17/98
3	11:25 AM	12:42 PM	Auburn Medics	Pre-school	Varicella encephalitis, seizures	PICU	Hospitalized 3 days
11	8:36 PM	10:40 PM	Orcas Island Clinic	Newborn	Prematurity	IICU	Still hospitalized
14	9:10 AM	9:54 AM	Bainbridge Island Medics	Teen	Ventricular fibrillation, cardiomyopathy	PICU	Hospitalized 2 days
18	7:49 PM	9:12 PM	Stevens Hospital, Edmonds	Teen	Prolonged cardiac arrest, cardiac dysrhythmia	PICU	Died 5/20/98
22	5:33 PM	na	Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland	Pre-school	Cardiomyopathy	PICU	Died 6/6/98
23	9:00 AM	10:27 AM	St. Joseph Hospital, Bellingham	Newborn	Perinatal infection, group b	IICU	Hospitalized 12 days
June
3	2:29 PM	2:53 PM	Valley General Hospital, Monroe	Infant	Unexplained sudden death, cardiac arrest	PICU	Died 6/3/98
14	10:18 PM	11:30 PM	Skagit Valley Hospital, Mt. Vernon	Pre-school	Respiratory failure	PICU	Hospitalized 6 days
18	11:53 PM	1:23 AM	Providence General Hospital, Everett	Elementary	Meningococcal meningitis	PICU	Hospitalized 12 days
21	4:24 PM	6:18 PM	Providence General Hospital, Everett	Infant	Drowning	PICU	Died 6/22/98
23	1:47 PM	3:15 PM	Lake Stevens Medics	School-age	Respiratory and cardiac arrest	ER	Died 6/23/98

Definition of Diagnosis/Treatment

Bronchiolitis: Inflamation of the small air passages in the lung, which makes breathing difficult. If severe, mechanical ventilation may be required to maintain patient's breathing.

Cardiac dysrhythmia: A general term covering a wide variety of abnormal heart rates and/or rhythms. Some are benign or only mildly troublesome. Some are life threatening.

Cardiomyopathy: This condition causes the heart to enlarge and beat improperly and can lead to cardiac arrest. Cardiomy- opathy is treated with medicine but in severe cases may require a transplant.

Coarctation of the aorta: An hour-glass shaped narrowing of the artery which exits the heart carrying oxygenated blood to the body, typically occurring just after the branches feeding the head and neck and before the artery supplies the lower half of the body. This causes high blood pressure in the arms, low blood pressure in the legs and stress and strain on the heart muscle, which can cause it to work too hard (congestive heart failure).

Diaphramatic hernia: A condition at birth in which the abdominal contents are displaced into the chest cavity causing respiratory distress and usually requiring immediate surgery.

Meconium aspiration: Pneumonia-like illness of newborn due to inhalation at birth of fluids containing material from infant's bowel.

Meningococcal meningitis: Bacterial infection of the covering of brain and spinal cord by the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis. It can be life threatening.

Perinatal group b streptococcal infection: Infection of a baby with group b streptococcus bacteria that the baby acquires around the time of delivery. The bacteria usually cause pneumonia, blood stream infection and sometimes meningitis.

Pneumothorax: Rupture of one of the lungs, resulting in leakage of air into the chest cavity. Chest tubes are surgically placed to drain air out of the chest cavity.

Varicella encephalitis: A brain infection caused by the chickenpox virus. Patients usually do well with treatment although on rare occasion it can result in seizures or brain injury due to tissue damage and even death due to brain failure.

Ventricular fibrillation: A state in which the heart is just quivering and not PMing blood effectively.

Ventricular septal defect: A hole between the two ventricles or PMing chambers of the heart, through which blood leaks from the left ventricle to the right ventricle and on to the lungs. The net effect is that the heart and lungs are overworked and inefficient (congestive heart failure).

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98105-0371.

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