Children's Hospitals Today - Summer 2017 - 12

ROUNDS / FROM EXPERIENCE

Robert Bartlett
inspires the
next generation
of doctors and
researchers.

M.D., the Michigan doctor
who devoted his career to
developing ECMO, "cloaked"
Cheriyan with her first
official white coat. "I felt
like I had come full circle
from the Mott NICU to U-M
Medical School," she says.
"It was a special experience
to share that moment with
Dr. Bartlett and for him to
join me in the beginning of
my own journey as a physician. His work is the reason
I'm here today."
Bartlett says he's proud
to see how far she's come.
"There wasn't a dry eye in
the house," he says of the
ceremony. "That was a very
emotional time."

FUNDING FOR A
FAR-FETCHED PROJECT

H

An idea that
saved thousands
of babies
The "outrageous" life's work
of a surgeon shows the
importance of big thinking.
BY BEATA MOSTAFAVI

12

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL S TODAY Summer 2017

annah Cheriyan was
born with her umbilical cord wrapped around
her neck. Just hours old and
in respiratory distress, she
was airlifted to the Newborn
Intensive Care Unit at
University of Michigan C.S.
Mott Children's Hospital.
For four days, Cheriyan
relied on a machine to perform the work of her heart
and lungs, giving her lungs
necessary time to heal. That
machine, known as ECMO,
or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, saved
her life.
Fast forward 21 years,
Cheriyan was at U-M again,
this time walking the stage
in the 2015 White Coat
Ceremony, a ritual that welcomes students into medical
school. And Robert Bartlett,

It took Bartlett and his colleagues more than a decade
of persistent research before the lifesaving innovation reached patients like
Cheriyan. "At the time, it
wasn't just an out-of-thebox idea. It was an outrageous one," says Bartlett, the
"father of ECMO," and professor emeritus of surgery
at Michigan Medicine. "In
the beginning, most neonatologists thought this was
a crazy, far-fetched project."
Bartlett and colleagues
started the journey to pioneer ECMO in the 1960s. It
was the early days of pediatric heart surgery, and the
mortality rate for children
was 50 percent, many dying
within days of their procedure. Doctors knew patients
could survive if they had a
few more days to recover.



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