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Tim LaBarge Freelance
"A CHANCE FOR LIFE"


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"Fear Suspended" With a mortality rate of nearly 40 percent, the risk of doing pediatric heart surgery at Hospital Del Nino seems great. Even greater, however, is the risk of not doing it. Congenital heart defects need to be fixed so the child can grow, develop and thrive. In the U.S., defects are often fixed before the first birthday and with a mortality rate of less than five percent. The Panama City hospital is one of the best in Central America and is working to increase survival rate. In the mean time, parents hope for the best as children struggle to make it to surgery day and survive. "Fear Suspended." Parents catch a glimpse of their daughter as she is rushed down a hallway from the operating room to the ICU after open heart surgery.
 

 

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