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Medical team travels 500 miles to save a 2-year-old child

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Violeta Tejera - published on 12/04/22
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The care team mobilized to coordinate getting the boy transferred to a hospital where he could get the care he needed.

Pablo, who’s only 2 years old, had lung and heart failure and needed to be connected to an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine to continue living. However, he was at a hospital in Burgos in northern Spain, and they didn’t have a machine available for him.

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