2016 was a rough year for Lifeline, but we continue to try and support the missions.
The doctors seek funds from all and even though Lifeline cant help 100%, we send what we can and the doctors continue the lifesaving work!
Thank you to all the doctors for saving the children!
In 2014 American Airlines has brought over 10 children from the Yucatan to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. Treating children with Tetrology of Fallot (TOF), cardiac catheterization and VSD.
This year’s Neonatal Intensive Care Mission to Guayaquil was led by Dr. Fabio Olarte, MD from Frederick Memorial Hospital and Elizabeth Cristofalo, MD, from Johns Hopkins University Hospital. The group consisted of Neonatologists, Respiratory Therapist…
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This was the second trip to India. They received a warm welcome back. Dr. Green scheduled 4 pacemaker implantation’s and Drs Feld and Srivatsa had 6 RF ablations. This repeated every day for 5 days….
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“We are all so extremely grateful for Lifeline’s continued commitment to improve the quality of medical care to the neo-nates and their families here.” After returning from his team’s 12th consecutive mission to Ecuador, Dr….
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For the second time, Children’s Lifeline partnered with Pediatric Universal Life- Saving Effort (PULSE) a New York based non- profit organization for another mission to Nepal. There are no pediatric critical care specialists in Nepal….
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Pediatric Cardiologist, Michael S. Womack, who has been a Lifeline Mission leader for many years writes that “…we are up to 324 catheterizations on these children in Panama, and over 60 catheterizations for the entire…
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“Despite torrential rains, this was a busy and eventful trip providing healthcare to 2000 patients in just 5 days… 65% of those were infants, children and newborns,” writes Dr. P. Tatachar who led this successful…
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Dr. Green’s medical team included; Dr. Uma Srivatsa – Electro physiologist, Dr. Greg Feld – Electro physiologist, Dr. G. Victor Pretorius – Cardiac Surgeon, and Dave Robberson – Electro physiologist Technician. The team was fortunate…
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Children’s Lifeline believes at its core that, It is not enough just to heal…but to train and enable the host hospitals to continue the life saving work of the missions. Recently, an 8 month old…
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