Chapter 5 - The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Begins Emergency Treatment
The ambulance roared away from the estate gates with its siren screaming through the quiet suburban night. Inside the back of the moving vehicle, medics worked frantically over Emma, administering intravenous fluids and cardiac monitoring.
"Her pulse is dropping! Prepare the pediatric epinephrine drip!" the senior paramedic shouted over the monitor's rhythmic beeping. Sarah held onto her daughter's tiny, cold hand, praying silently as the asphalt blurred past the ambulance windows.
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Within fifteen minutes, the vehicle backed rapidly into St. Jude Memorial Hospital's emergency bay doors. A team of doctors and nurses swarmed the stretcher, wheeling Emma through the double doors into the bright lights of the trauma unit.
Mark followed closely behind in his luxury sedan, his hands gripping the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles turned pure white.
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