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Two surgical teams are taking part in the complex surgery that involves separating Costa Rican siemese twins Ezequiel and Samuel, born in 2015 and who are joined at the head.
The babies were taken into the surgery room at 7:30 a.m. Friday, February 23 and almost 11 hours later the surgery was still in progress. The Social Security Service (CCSS) confirmed that the surgery could carry out through the early hours of this Saturday.
“This is an intervention in which different teams are participating to satisfy the needs of one of the most complex, long and difficult surgeries done at the National Children’s Hospital, due to the anatomic characteristics of these twins. In 1985 this hospital successfully separated Karen and Karol, Siamese twins that were joined by the side of the pelvis, abdomen and chest and who shared a portion of liver and whose two hearts were connected.
The logistics of the surgery has been arduous, the case has been carefully analyzed and discussed by different teams in medical sciences of the Children’s Hospital, and professionals from the United States.
Considering the technical complexity of the procedure which has a reserved prognosis, the teams of the National Children’s Hospital made the decision of carrying on with the surgery with the hope to offer an option of a normal life to the minors. Their parents received all the details regarding the risks involved with this surgery and the need to do it”, stated the Social Security Service.
State of the art equipment is being used to ensure the quality and precision of the surgery and involves the participation of more than 20 professionals, among them neurosurgeons, specialists in reconstructive surgery, anesthesiologists and nurses.
All support teams are also in standby in the event that their services are needed, among them the blood bank, laboratory and the intensive care unit.
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