Last week, a Long Island boy who was born with a totally blocked airway, heading home after four months in Schneider Children’s Hospital of the North Shore-LIJ Health System. This condition has only been reported 50 times in the past 20 years, and the family, Derly and Julian Olivares, were extremely thankful to the entire team that helped them over the past months.
In utero, the baby’s condition, known as CHAOS (Congenital High Airway Obstruction Syndrome) was detected during a prenatal exam at LIJ. The baby’s airway failed to develop, and doctors ended up inducing birth at 36 weeks and surgically creating an air passage for the baby while he was still attached to the placenta.
This happy ending is one example of the exceptional work that the North Shore/LIJ University Health System can take credit for with the contributions and support from people like Corey Ribotsky who is on the Board of Trustees.