Tense Moments... (a must read) It was raining heavily. A twelve-year-old boy was brought to my clinic. He was literally hammering his teeth, two blankets and four umbrellas on his head probably by his mother, father and uncle. I was just shutting down my clinic then. Nishant was barely able to stand. I took them in and then into my examining room. I could feel the glass panes of my clinic rattle as he sat down in front of me. He was having high fever since past one week. Not a single blood test was done. But there was something which was staring at me. He had red spots all over the body. These were petechia, suggests low platelet counts and the patient bleeds because of this. In fact, the patient can bleed to death because of this. There can be bleeding in the brain and the patient can die. So Dengue fever caused by mosquito bites was a high clinical suspicion. The child was admitted and blood was sent for testing. Oxygen was started since the patient was having difficulty in breathing. The platelet count was just 2000. Normally it is 1.5 to 2 lakh as per his age. Platelets are blood cells which prevent bleeding. Hence platelets would have to be given to the patient and that too immediately. Then started the phone calls, one blood bank after the other. None of the blood banks had platelets. To complete the story, click- flairwide/BLOG.aspx?TEXT_ID=57
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:15:59 +0000
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