This is a truly great story. I found this in the web – it is from Chip and Dan Heat’s great book “Sticky Ideas” – have a read:<\/p>\n
The nurse was working in the neonatal<\/b> intensive-care <\/b>unit<\/b>… She’d been watching one baby in particular for several hours … His color<\/b>, a key indicator of potential problems, had been fluctuating-wavering<\/b> between a healthy shade of pink and a duller, more troublesome hue. Suddenly, within a matter of seconds, the baby turned a deep<\/b> blue-black<\/b>. The nurse’s stomach fell. Others in the ICU yelled for an X-ray technician and a doctor.<\/p>\n
The gathering medical team was operating on the assumption<\/b> that<\/b> the<\/b> baby’s<\/b> lung<\/b> had<\/b> collapsed<\/b> – a common problem for babies on ventilators. The team prepared for the typical response to a collapsed lung, which involves piercing<\/b> the<\/b> chest<\/b> and<\/b> inserting<\/b> a <\/b>tube<\/b> to suck the air from around the collapsed lung, allowing it to re-inflate.<\/p>\n
But the nurse<\/b> thought it was a heart<\/b> problem<\/b>. As soon as she saw the baby’s color-that awful blue-black-she suspected a pneumopericardium, a condition in which air fills the sac surrounding the heart, pressing inward and preventing<\/b> the<\/b> heart<\/b> from<\/b> beating<\/b>. The nurse was terrified, because the last time <\/b>she<\/b> witnessed<\/b> a pneumopericardium the baby died before the problem could even be diagnosed.<\/p>\n
The nurse tried<\/b> to<\/b> stop<\/b> the frantic preparations to treat the lung. “<\/b>It’<\/b> s the<\/b> heart<\/b>!”<\/b> she said. But in response, the other medical personnel pointed to the heart<\/b> monitor<\/b>, which showed that the baby’s heart was fine; his heart rate was bouncing<\/b> along<\/b> steadily<\/b>, at the newborn rate of 130 <\/b>beats<\/b> per minute. The nurse, still insistent<\/b>, pushed their hands away and screamed for quiet as she lowered a stethoscope<\/b> to check for a heartbeat.<\/p>\n
There was no<\/b> sound-the<\/b> heart was not beating.<\/p>\n
She started doing compressions<\/b> on the baby’s chest. The chief neonatologist burst into the room and the nurse slapped a syringe in his hand. “It’s pneumopericardium,” she said. “Stick <\/b>the<\/b> heart<\/b>.” The neonatologist guided the syringe into the heart and slowly<\/b> released<\/b> the<\/b> air<\/b> that had been strangling the baby’s heart. The baby’s life was saved. His color slowly returned to normal.<\/p>\n
Later, the group realized why the heart monitor misled them. It is designed to measure electrical<\/b> activity<\/b>, not <\/b>actual<\/b> heartbeats<\/b>. The baby’s heart nerves were firing-telling the heart to beat at the appropriate rate-but the air in the sac around the heart prevented the heart from actually beating.<\/p>\n
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>>> What does this story contain? WISDOM (trust your gut feeling), EXPERIENCE (machines are not always right) AND THE MOTIVATION TO ACT (oppose if you know better).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a truly great story. I found this in the web – it is from Chip and Dan Heat’s great book “Sticky Ideas” – have a read: The nurse was working in the neonatal intensive-care unit… She’d been watching one baby in particular for several hours … His color, a key indicator of potential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytelling-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t