Anaesthesia for the separation of conjoined twins

Thoraco-omphalopagus is one of the most common type of conjoint twins accounting for 74% cases of conjoint twins. We report the anaesthetic management for successful separation of thoraco-omphalopagus conjoint twins, both of them surviving till date. We highlight the responsibility of anaesthesia te...

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Autores principales: Lalwani, Jaya, Dubey, KP, Shah, Pratibha
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21712878
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.79902
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author Lalwani, Jaya
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Shah, Pratibha
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description Thoraco-omphalopagus is one of the most common type of conjoint twins accounting for 74% cases of conjoint twins. We report the anaesthetic management for successful separation of thoraco-omphalopagus conjoint twins, both of them surviving till date. We highlight the responsibility of anaesthesia team in anaesthetising the two individual patients simultaneously, need of careful monitoring and anticipation of complications like massive blood loss, hypotension, hypokalemia, hypoxia and hypercabia. Detailed description of successful management is reported.
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spelling pubmed-31063942011-06-27 Anaesthesia for the separation of conjoined twins Lalwani, Jaya Dubey, KP Shah, Pratibha Indian J Anaesth Case Report Thoraco-omphalopagus is one of the most common type of conjoint twins accounting for 74% cases of conjoint twins. We report the anaesthetic management for successful separation of thoraco-omphalopagus conjoint twins, both of them surviving till date. We highlight the responsibility of anaesthesia team in anaesthetising the two individual patients simultaneously, need of careful monitoring and anticipation of complications like massive blood loss, hypotension, hypokalemia, hypoxia and hypercabia. Detailed description of successful management is reported. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3106394/ /pubmed/21712878 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.79902 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Anaesthesia for the separation of conjoined twins
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title_full Anaesthesia for the separation of conjoined twins
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title_short Anaesthesia for the separation of conjoined twins
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106394/
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