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Cojoined twins successfully separated after a complicated 12 hour surgery

Posted by : Taaza Khabar News on | May 20,2015

Cojoined twins successfully separated after a complicated 12 hour surgery

A team of highly skilled pediatric specialists including senior pediatric surgeons Dr. Daniel Robie, MD, and Dr. Nicholas Poulos, MD, performed a marathon 12 hour surgery to separate two conjoined twins – Carter and Conner at the Wolfson Children’s Hospital –the speciality hospital just for kids in Northeast Florida.
 
The boys were born on Dec. 12, 2014, in Jacksonville, Fla.
 
The surgery started at 7:11 am and the boys were separated at 3:34 pm.
 
Conner’s surgery was finished at 6:29 pm and he was transferred from OR 8 to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Wolfson Children’s Hospital at 6:52 pm. Carter’s surgery ended at 6:47 pm and he was transferred to the PICU at 7:14 pm to join his brother.
 
The separation involved a 17-member surgical care team (blue for Carter, green for Conner and white for surgical support), including Stephen Dunn, MD, Division Chief of Solid Organ Transplant for Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., who travelled to Jacksonville to assist the team in separating Conner and Carter’s fused livers.

Read More:http://worldnewsreport.in/cojoined-twins-successfully-separated-after-a-complicated-12-hour-surgery/

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