Baby Dies in Honolulu Airport Customs Office Posted: 11 months ago by MandolinOrange
Family members say the baby was locked in a customs room by immigration officers with his mother and a nurse when he died. The baby had come to Hawaii for emergency heart surgery.
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Posted: 11 months ago by cb__:
He was on a regular rather than medical flight?? Hard to comment without more detail but that can't have been a good idea.
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Posted: 11 months ago by dollyllama:
Yes, I don't really think there's enough information in this story. Why were they detained in customs? Why wasn't there a radio ahead to plan to bring the child right to the hospital, even if the parents had to stay behind.
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Posted: 11 months ago by tahafcuk:
thats really bad and should never happen again...
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Posted: 11 months ago by daphnejane:
Department of Homeland Security strikes again. Small men given too much power and they probably won't even have to answer for this.
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Posted: 11 months ago by muppet:
more info here:
that is SUCH a sad story. the dog crossing 70 miles made me really happy...and then i read this and now i'm really sad. oh, the perils of plime...
:(
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Posted: 11 months ago by TraumaMamma:
Police say the infant died at 5:50 a.m. local time on Friday after arriving on a flight from Pago Pago that landed at 5:30 a.m.
I feel like a big meany here, but...
I hardly think 20 minutes would have made a difference.
That child could have died:
-on the plane. (fly faster!)
-enroute to the hospital (were they going in a rental car or by EMS?)
-while checking INTO the hospital
-after checking into the hospital (was surgery team ready to accept and treat this patient?)
(and probably would have been sued by the parents at any of those places as well)
The child should have been transported by medical transport, from start to finish. Customs should have been contacted and made aware of this child traveling PRIOR.
Sad that after your child passes, you think SUE instead of grieve.
The child had a heart condition for 14 days of it's life, it was already gravely ill.
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Posted: 11 months ago by native19:
Flying to Medical aid...your trying. After landing enroute to the hospital...your trying.
At the hospital where everyone is doing everything they can...I am crushed..but everyone was trying. But to hold my child as he dies while the beuracratic bull@*&! machine grinds our efforts to a halt, where no one with an oz. of common sense can be merciful. Yeah, the times have changed. I can no longer duel you the next morning which would be so much more satisfying. But I can make you pay for your ignorance on way or another. I hope they win whatever they can. One may think of the money as big screen tv's or cars. As a parent I think of the time away from the world it will buy them. Time to grieve.
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Posted: 11 months ago by fugazi:
but, hey...it is this kind of thing that is protecting all the other babies from Tewwwowists.
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Posted: 11 months ago by TraumaMamma:
« native19 : Flying to Medical aid...your trying. After landing enroute to the hospital...your trying.
At the hospital where everyone is doing everything they can...I am crushed..but everyone was trying. But to hold my child as he dies while the beuracratic bull@*&! machine grinds our efforts to a halt, where no one with an oz. of common sense can be merciful. Yeah, the times have changed. I can no longer duel you the next morning which would be so much more satisfying. But I can make you pay for your ignorance on way or another. I hope they win whatever they can. One may think of the money as big screen tv's or cars. As a parent I think of the time away from the world it will buy them. Time to grieve. If they locked them in a room for an hour I could see it.
In the twenty minutes the child had upon landing, could it have gotten anywhere in time to save it?
Can anyone get out of an airport and to a hospital in 20 minutes?
One thing I should add, that badbud can back up. Pediatric patients are very difficult to bring back, ever. Actually, I never have.
Signs of shock and compromise are different in children than adults. You see a kid maintaining a normal bp for *them* and you miss a teeny tiny sign (increased respirations...stress, or something else?)that they could be ready to go in arrest and you have lost them BEFORE their heart stops beating.
When kids crash, they don't come back 99% of the time.
When WE go into shock, our body shows it. Little kids compensate until there is nothing left for their bodies to give.
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Posted: 11 months ago by muppet:
« TraumaMamma :
Can anyone get out of an airport and to a hospital in 20 minutes?
i hadn't even thought about that, but that is an excellent point. the honolulu airport is about 8 miles away from the kapi'olani medical center (which is where i was born by the way :)). that doesn't seem very far at all, but at 6 in the morning there is NO WAY IN HELL they would have made it in 20 minutes. the traffic in honolulu is BAD. it probably would have taken them 40 minutes at best.
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