When a baby girl, just days old, went into cardiac arrest in late January, her mother rushed her to the local fire station, where they defibrillated her and saved her life. She was sent to Oakland Children’s Hospital and then to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, where her heart stopped and had to be restarted multiple times. Her doctors put her on a heart-lung machine for a week, then implanted an internal defibrillator and removed nerve cells that make the heart jumpy. In all this turmoil, it’s unlikely that anyone gave a thought to the role of biostatisticians in the girl’s care ……. see more from the Stanford University Website