Kosair Children’s Hospital: Doctors Successfully Separate Conjoined Twins at Hospital in Kentucky
Specialists at Kosair Children’s Hospital have announced they performed a surgery to separate conjoined twin girls. Surgeons separated 7-week-old girls who were connected at the chest and abdomen and shared a heart chamber and liver after an 8-hour surgery on Nov. 11. Since the surgery, the girls have been under close watch of experts in the hospital’s “Just for Kids” Critical Care Center.
“God was definitely watching over the girls and the medical team on the day of the surgery,” said the babies’ mother. “We are so thankful to God and everyone at Kosair Children’s Hospital for getting them this far.
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The girls had been staying at Kosair Children’s Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit since their birth. When the twins began to need more help breathing and were not growing properly, medical experts decided it was time to operate.
The surgical team included six University of Louisiana surgeons, a cardiologist, and a cardiological fellow. Plastic surgeons, advanced surgical nurses, and other specialists and technicians from Kosair Children’s Hospital rounded out the team. In total, more than 45 people contributed to the surgery’s planning and execution.
Although the surgery on Nov. 11 was planned to take 12 hours, the team finished in eight. They had performed drills on dolls to prepare for the operation — the first conjoined twin separation surgery at the hospital since 2001.
