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15 month old Wilson Irael Mendez has stayed at the free hospital Dr. Aldo Castañeda runs in Guatemala City for a month. Wilson needs to get stronger before the surgery. WIlson's sister is keeping an eye out on him on Sunday, Feb 28, 2011.
According to the Aldo Castañeda Foundation's website, at the start of the program in 1997, Aldo was able to bring together the only 3 pediatric cardiologists practicing in Guatemala. This group has now grown to 8 cardiologists, with expertise in fetal echocardiography, interventional catheterization, and diagnostic and interventional electrophysiology. Castañeda has also promoted the professional training of anesthesiologists, nurses, and other technical staff.
With the help of the Aldo Castañeda Foundation, the Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Unit of Guatemala has expanded to 2 exclusive operating rooms, an intensive care unit with 6 beds, a 4-bed step-down unit, and an 18-bed general ward. In addition, he has provided the infrastructure for a new laboratory for cardiac catheterization, and 2 laboratories for echocardiography.
Since 1997, the staff working in the outpatient clinic has seen more than 20,000 patients, and the surgeons have performed operations on about 2000 children with congenital cardiac disease.
Members of the University of Michigan M-HEAL student group arrived to Antigua where they spend their first full day in the Guatemala. The students have been working on developing a new stethoscope that would electronically record heart-sounds of patients in rural part of Guatemala and send them to a Guatemala City hospital. The stethoscope could eventually save lives or prevent major complications for infants born with congenital heart defects. During the trip students will visit a Guatemala City hospital as well as multiple rural clinics where they will gain first-hand experience of their conditions and working habits related to the stethoscope they are developing. Sunday, Feb 26, 2011
Photo by Marcin Szczepanski, Multimedia Producer/University of Michigan, College of Engineering
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15 month old Wilson Irael Mendez has stayed at the free hospital Dr. Aldo Castañeda runs in Guatemala City for a month. Wilson needs to get stronger before the surgery. WIlson's sister is keeping an eye out on him on Sunday, Feb 28, 2011.
According to the Aldo Castañeda Foundation's website, at the start of the program in 1997, Aldo was able to bring together the only 3 pediatric cardiologists practicing in Guatemala. This group has now grown to 8 cardiologists, with expertise in fetal echocardiography, interventional catheterization, and diagnostic and interventional electrophysiology. Castañeda has also promoted the professional training of anesthesiologists, nurses, and other technical staff.
With the help of the Aldo Castañeda Foundation, the Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Unit of Guatemala has expanded to 2 exclusive operating rooms, an intensive care unit with 6 beds, a 4-bed step-down unit, and an 18-bed general ward. In addition, he has provided the infrastructure for a new laboratory for cardiac catheterization, and 2 laboratories for echocardiography.
Since 1997, the staff working in the outpatient clinic has seen more than 20,000 patients, and the surgeons have performed operations on about 2000 children with congenital cardiac disease.
Members of the University of Michigan M-HEAL student group arrived to Antigua where they spend their first full day in the Guatemala. The students have been working on developing a new stethoscope that would electronically record heart-sounds of patients in rural part of Guatemala and send them to a Guatemala City hospital. The stethoscope could eventually save lives or prevent major complications for infants born with congenital heart defects. During the trip students will visit a Guatemala City hospital as well as multiple rural clinics where they will gain first-hand experience of their conditions and working habits related to the stethoscope they are developing. Sunday, Feb 26, 2011
Photo by Marcin Szczepanski, Multimedia Producer/University of Michigan, College of Engineering