Unique operation

February 17, 2012

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Surgeons from America was able to spend an unusual operation they implanted pacemaker   baby, who was born just 15 minutes ago. Thus, a baby girl can be considered as the youngest recipient of such a device in the world in the history of medicine.

At such a crucial step as a result of doctors decided to survey 26 years pregnant   women. As it turned out fetal heart rate is very low and extremely dangerous. They also found that   the immune system   mother led to heart block   baby, that was the reason bradycardia Ie excessive loss of heartbeats.

In this regard, the clinic doctors at Stanford University of California decided to cause premature childbirth   in order that the child begin treatment and prevent the development of circulatory disorders. "We are very worried and hope that our daughter struggles within struggles," - commented the father of the child.

Call the doctors decided birth at 31 weeks gestation. A team of 20 health care workers has been formed to provide emergency aid to an infant. Due to the fact that the girl was born prematurely, her weight was only 1, 6 kg, but the birth went without complications. Heart rate was only 45 beats per minute, while the average observed in the newborn of about 140.

Therefore surgeon   the clinic decided to immediately carry out an operation to implant a pacemaker - a special device that generates pulses for the contraction of the heart. Typically, in the case of reducing the heart rate electrodes are fed to newborns only to the heart, and the stimulator is left outside, complete implantation of a few weeks. But the surgeon decided not to subject the girl surgery twice and set the instrument immediately. The operation took about an hour, was successful.

Today, the girl underwent surgery for nearly three months, she is developing normally and weighs almost 4 kg.