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Girl, battered in high-rise fall, recovering, still in coma
By Cai Wenjun and Xu Wenwen |
July 7, 2011, Thursday
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THE 2-year-old girl, who fell from a 10th floor window and was caught by a woman below last Saturday, has been upgraded from critical to serious condition, doctors of Children's Hospital in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, said today.
"The first 24 hours after the respiration machine was removed from her is still dangerous for Niu Niu (the girl), but her overall condition is improving," one doctor said.
The girl had her respiration machine removed at 11:30am today and her battered organs, including the liver, lungs, kidneys and spleen, are all recovering, and her life signs, blood pressure and temperature, are getting normal, said the doctors from the Children's Hospital which is affiliated with Zhejiang University's School of Medicine.
Niu Niu's 10-storey fall was cushioned by a 31-year-old young mother, Wu Juping, who caught the girl with stretched arms, preventing her to hit the ground with full force. But the impact fractured Wu's left forearm.
Despite the cushioning arms, the young girl suffered serious injuries to her organs, head, spine and limbs.
"Abdominal infection is also diminishing," said Dr Zhang Chenmei, director of the hospital's intensive care unit. "Whether her brain function can fully recover or not is still unknown. We will keep close observation."
Niu Niu is still in a coma. Nurses said her fingers and toes sometimes twitch. Her mother said Niu Niu's eyelids moved when she visited her yesterday in the intensive care unit.
The girl was left alone in the 10th floor apartment last Saturday when her grandmother went downstairs to fetch laundry, thinking the girl was still asleep. Then the accident happened.
"The first 24 hours after the respiration machine was removed from her is still dangerous for Niu Niu (the girl), but her overall condition is improving," one doctor said.
The girl had her respiration machine removed at 11:30am today and her battered organs, including the liver, lungs, kidneys and spleen, are all recovering, and her life signs, blood pressure and temperature, are getting normal, said the doctors from the Children's Hospital which is affiliated with Zhejiang University's School of Medicine.
Niu Niu's 10-storey fall was cushioned by a 31-year-old young mother, Wu Juping, who caught the girl with stretched arms, preventing her to hit the ground with full force. But the impact fractured Wu's left forearm.
Despite the cushioning arms, the young girl suffered serious injuries to her organs, head, spine and limbs.
"Abdominal infection is also diminishing," said Dr Zhang Chenmei, director of the hospital's intensive care unit. "Whether her brain function can fully recover or not is still unknown. We will keep close observation."
Niu Niu is still in a coma. Nurses said her fingers and toes sometimes twitch. Her mother said Niu Niu's eyelids moved when she visited her yesterday in the intensive care unit.
The girl was left alone in the 10th floor apartment last Saturday when her grandmother went downstairs to fetch laundry, thinking the girl was still asleep. Then the accident happened.
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