A woman injured July 30 in a head-on collision in downtown Seattle gave birth by emergency Caesarean section at Harborview Medical Center shortly after firefighters extricated her from her crumpled van. The accident and subsequent care given by UW Medicine physicians, nurses and other providers has received extensive news coverage.
The mother, Consonya Taylor, is being treated for multiple injuries at Harborview Medical Center. Her son, Solomon Xavier Miracle Taylor, was treated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at UW Medical Center. The baby’s father, Curtis Taylor, took him home from the hospital Aug. 6. That evening the infant visited his mother at Harborview.
Jason Lachance, a resident in obstetrics and gynecology, helped deliver the baby at Harborview under the supervision of Kirk Shy, professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
Surgical critical care specialist Grant O’Keefe was the attending in charge of the mother’s treatment at Harborview’s Trauma Center. He is an associate professor of surgery. Many Harborview physicians and other health-care personnel participated in her care during the acute event and subsequent hospitalization.
UW Medical Center neonatologists Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, associate professor of pediatrics and medical education, and Michael Neufeld, acting assistant professor of pediatrics, oversaw the infant’s treatment.
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August 8, 2003