Visakhapatnam: A two-month-old baby, weighing only 2.7 kilograms, was diagnosed with a rare and critical heart condition and brought to KIMS Cuddles Hospital in Visakhapatnam. The medical team immediately placed the baby on Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support and performed complex open-heart surgery three days later to correct the condition. The medical team, led by Dr. Nikhil Tenneti, Dr. Santhosh Kumar …
In a first-of-its-kind medical feat, a team of doctors from Hyderabad flew to Goa in an air ambulance to rescue an 18-month-old child battling severe pneumonia. It all began on September 15, when senior consultant neonatologist at Rainbow Children’s Hospital Kapil B. Sahane received a distress call from Goa Medical College and Hospital at around 6 p.m. Within six hours …
Hyderabad: KIMS Cuddles Gachibowli doctors treated an 11-month-old baby with ECMO support to save her life. Anvika, an 11-month-old baby with severe H1N1 pneumonia, was treated in a private hospital with ventilation as support. was then referred to KIMS Cuddles, Gachibowli for ECMO support she was unable to maintain oxygen levels on ventilator support. Providing ECMO support to children is …
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support is now being used in several hospitals to help severe COVID patients, who have acute pneumonia or lung damage, and in cases where ventilators are failing to maintain blood oxygen levels. Dr Suresh Rao, Co-Director of Heart and Lung Transplant at MGM Chennai, told News18.com that ECMO support is basically an artificial lung outside the patient’s …
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