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Baby delivered during open-heart surgery Sunday, 3 February 2008 - 3:22 AM SL Time |  | |
Amazing story...
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Saturday, February 02, 2008
EDMONTON -- Two teams of surgeons in Edmonton delivered a baby while operating on the mother for a life-threatening heart rupture last month.
The 36-year-old woman - who was 35 weeks pregnant - was airlifted from the Alberta city of Grande Prairie on Jan. 24 with a ruptured aorta - a condition that is fatal 40 per cent of the time without surgery within 48 hours.
She was taken immediately into an operating room at the University of Alberta while a obstetrical team raced from the nearby Royal Alexandra hospital to save her child.
In what doctors are calling an extremely rare tandem-surgery procedure, the obstetrical team delivered the child by caesarian section while cardiac surgeons performed open-heart surgery to save the mother`s life.
The work took hours and the two patients - fragile but stable - weren`t wheeled out of the operating room until the next day. Mother and child are said to be doing well, and they`re expected to return home today.
The operations were made especially difficult by the need to lower the mother`s body temperature and stop her heart in preparation for surgery - while her baby was still linked to her bloodstream.
The mother is expected to attend a news conference today in Edmonton with Dr. Rod MacArthur, the cardiovascular surgeon who performed the complex aortic surgery, and Dr. Billy Wong, the obstetrician who delivered the baby.
Grande Prairie is about 460 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
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tamilcanuck
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 2 Feb 2008 22:10:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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And on the other end of the spectrum a 8 months old baby was abandoned in a shopping center a few days back. Police are still searching for the parents!
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2 Feb 2008 22:10:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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I think, during the heart surgery, they have to stop the heart. Once the mother's heart is stopped, infant won't get oxygen and food through the mother and that would lead to death of the baby or the brain injured.
I think, as she was closer to the term, as the heart surgery was essential they have decided to get the baby out. |
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 2 Feb 2008 22:14:20 GMT Report for Abuse
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I think, during the heart surgery, they have to stop the heart. Once the mother's heart is stopped, infant won't get oxygen and food through the mother and that would lead to death of the baby or the brain injured.
That's the whole idea..... it's mostly oxygen in this kind of a condition and the result is a brain damage to the fetus,.... |
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 2 Feb 2008 22:42:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hope both doing well.
Man, that is a medical Miracle. |
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 2 Feb 2008 23:09:21 GMT Report for Abuse
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Revy,
Can you give us the original link (no offense bro) ...
ruptured aorta - a condition that is fatal 40 per cent of the time without surgery within 48 hours.
I would like to know the exact cause for the heart surgery ... as ruptured aorta causes 100% sudden death (Aorta is the largest and main blood vessel in us).
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Anud,
I think, as she was closer to the term, as the heart surgery was essential they have decided to get the baby out.
Once you have 22+ weeks in to the pregnancy you can develop the baby in an incubator.
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3 Feb 2008 03:17:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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Saint:
Once you have 22+ weeks in to the pregnancy you can develop the baby in an incubator.
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Many doctors ran away from Sri Lanka for greener pastures and they lost Sri Lanka lost.
One worked in 711 in the west. |
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3 Feb 2008 05:34:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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Saint bro, here is a slightly longer and updated version:
http://tinyurl.com/38gdbo |
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3 Feb 2008 16:19:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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Bro,
I red the whole thing, thanks!
'Aortic Dissection' was the cause, if you have a min have a look, here are some diagrams of the condition:http://tinyurl.com/26wvjh
Btw, credit should go to the med personal, who checked her, she is damn good professional.
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AnuD,
Many doctors ran away from Sri Lanka for greener pastures and they lost Sri Lanka lost...
I just don't see the connection here ... please explain!
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3 Feb 2008 07:53:28 GMT