Vanderbilt Children's Maternal Fetal Center

Sara Edens (24.11.2014 11:40)
The best children's hospital of all time!!!!!

mirso sah (11.11.2014 21:39)
I can not tell you how mad i am at this place. unprofessional and some rude doctors wrong diagnosse was given to my boy and after 5 months of chemo they decided to change chemo that didnt work, i made mistake of my life for taking my kid to this hospitall. Friendly advice dont go to this hospitall take your kid to st jude.

Mike Hartman (15.10.2013 22:39)
I have waited far too long to write this but today is the one year anniversary of my son being admitted there. In early October of 2012, my son was admitted to a small rural hospital in middle Tennessee for pneumonia. While he was there, he started developing sores in his mouth and lips and also had some strange lesions that came up that confused the nursing staff. The doctor dismissed it as a viral infection and prescribed him more medication and then discharged him. We took him home and his condition worsened and he developed conjunctivitis in his eyes. Due to the painful sores he was severely struggling to eat or drink and was becoming dehydrated. The next day we took him back to the doctor and he just prescribed more medication.

We once again took him home and his condition got progressively worse and his dehydration got to the point that caused him to become delirious. We took him to a different hospital and once the nurse in the ER saw him she recognized his condition as Stevens Johnson Syndrome and said that he had to taken immediately to Vanderbilt Children's via ambulance. SJS is an extremely rare and horrific condition that affects only a few hundred patients a year in the U.S. and is often misdiagnosed. She had worked at Children's and said that she had seen it several before because that is where all the "weird" cases are taken.

Upon arrival, he was immediately taken into ICU and evaluated by a large team of doctors in a wide range of specialties. They decided to do an IVIG treatment that is believed to help stop the progression of the syndrome. I didn't sleep for 3 days and I can tell you that within an hour of starting the treatment some areas of a new rash started dissipating. Several times a day, a team of 15-20 doctors would meet with us to discuss some treatment ideas and update us on all the lab results. When your child is in this type of condition all you do is research, research and do some more research. What I appreciated is that they always took the time to listen to what I had to say and, as this is an extremely rare illness, even applied some of the research that I had read into their treatment. Talk about a lack of arrogance! They even had a med student spending all of their time researching treatment options for SJS. His battle was difficult but 2 weeks later he got to go home.

I could go on to tell you about the sweet, loving nature of the entire staff, the incredible facility and the programs they have to distract and entertain the children during their "scary time" - all of which is amazing. However, I cannot thank them enough for saving my son's life and I want to emphasize their empathetic and expert care. I am not strong enough to do what they do every day when they see these children suffering. The people of Vanderbilt Children's are true heroes. I constantly thank God for providing them with the expertise they have and for him seeing that nurse in our local hospital. Without her experience from having worked at Vanderbilt, it's very possible he wouldn't be with us today. I am happy to report that just a few weeks ago he played his best game at keeper in soccer. Thanks and God Bless all of you!

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