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Coimbatore
Complex surgery performed on 11-month Oman baby
March 20, 2016
Doctors at the Apollo Children’s Hospital successfully performed a first-of-its-kind cardiac and tracheal surgery in India over a 11-month-old baby from Oman.
Yaseen Essa Salim Saleem AL Ruqaishi, the patient, was born with Down’s syndrome. He was also born with congenital heart troubles and a narrowing of the airway passage. According to the doctors who were treating the child in Oman, this caused frequent respiratory infections and greatly increased the chances of cardiac arrest.
The doctors at Apollo Children’s Hospital took care of the preoperative procedures.
The team of highly specialized doctors performed a combined cardiac and thoracic surgery that lasted for six hours, with cardiac, thoracic, anesthesia, and critical care teams working simultaneously to correct the baby’s heart defect and his narrow airway passage.
The child is now out of danger and is recovering.
