ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “New app developed in Queensland helps seriously ill children manage their health care | ABC News” – below is their description.
A new app, developed in Queensland, is helping families of sick children manage a stressful part of their health care.
Researchers estimate between 10,000 and 20,000 seriously ill children in Australia need an intravenous (IV) line or catheter each year.
Gold Coast boy, Oliver Glover, 2, is one of them. He was born premature, with a bowel obstruction, and spent the first eight months of life in hospital.
“After he was born he went into surgery and lost most of his small bowel,” his mother Kelly Glover said.
“So, he’s got a central venous catheter in his chest, which provides him TPN (nutrition) six nights a week.”
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