{"id":17952,"date":"2020-01-17T08:47:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T08:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=17952"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T08:47:05","slug":"mgm-ensures-intact-survival-for-extreme-preterm-born-twin-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=17952","title":{"rendered":"MGM ENSURES \u2018INTACT SURVIVAL\u2019 FOR EXTREME PRETERM BORN TWIN GIRLS"},"content":{"rendered":"

MGM ENSURES \u2018INTACT SURVIVAL\u2019 FOR EXTREME\u00a0PRETERM BORN TWIN GIRLS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25aa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Twins born at 25 weeks of pregnancy<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u25aa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Doctors at MGM successfully ensure\u00a0intact\u00a0survival, despite survival chances in developed countries being around 50 – 60%<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chennai, January 17, 2020:<\/strong>\u00a0MGM Healthcare<\/strong>, a quaternary care hospital in the heart of the city, today announced the discharge of a unique pair of twins who underwent intensive care at the hospital for 85 days after their birth.<\/p>\n

Elaborating on these twins,\u00a0Dr. Binu Ninan, Head of Department –\u00a0 Paediatrics and Neonatology, MGM Healthcare<\/strong>\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cThe twins came into the world through a caesarean section surgery on recently, in just 25 weeks of pregnancy, which is an extremely premature birth. On account of this, they weighed just 840 grams and 600 grams respectively, the younger one being less than the size of a palm. They spent a challenging time in the neonatal intensive care unit following their birth, as chances of survival of such premature birth even in developed countries is around 50-60%. But we are happy to have successfully brought the babies back to normal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The post-birth treatment to achieve normal size and weight for the babies was undertaken by the Neonatology team at MGM Healthcare led by\u00a0Dr. Binu Ninan<\/strong>, comprising of\u00a0Dr. Chandra Kumar N.<\/strong>, Senior Consultant \u2013 Neonatology,\u00a0Dr. Dakshayani R.<\/strong>, Senior Consultant – Obstetrics and Gynaecology,\u00a0Dr Govardhan<\/strong>, Consultants – Paediatrics and Neonatology and\u00a0Dr. Aravind S.<\/strong>, Consultants\u00a0– Paediatrics and Neonatology.<\/p>\n

Neonatologists provided support for breathing in the delivery room and before shifting them to NICU. Both the babies were provided diligent care in NICU in incubators and other support to facilitate growth and maturation of their organs. They required support from ventilator machine for breathing, surfactant therapy (medicine to enable adequate lung expansion), inotropes to support the heart and circulation for first few days, and as they were so tender and could not digest milk, nutrition was provided by intravenous route (parenteral nutrition), Antibiotics were provided for infection, and last but not the least, tender loving care by efficient team of doctors.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the babies\u2019 present condition,\u00a0Dr. Chandra\u00a0Kumar\u00a0N.\u00a0<\/strong>said,\u00a0\u201cAfter 85 days of intensive care, the twin girls have now attained weight of 1.65 kg and 1.43 kg respectively, without any major morbidities\u2026this is what we call \u2018intact survival\u2019, which is the right of every baby, including preterm babies. Our experience with these pair of twins was very satisfying as we are glad that we could give them back to their parents in a stable condition, just like any normal baby.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Mother of the twins said,\u00a0\u201cWe are happy we chose MGM Healthcare. While the babies got a new lease of life, the doctors and nurses hand-held us throughout these 85 days, reassuring us continuously that everything would be fine. This care is something that we will cherish all our lives.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MGM ENSURES \u2018INTACT SURVIVAL\u2019 FOR EXTREME\u00a0PRETERM BORN TWIN GIRLS \u25aa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Twins born at 25 weeks of pregnancy \u25aa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Doctors at MGM successfully ensure\u00a0intact\u00a0survival, despite survival chances in developed countries being around 50 – 60% Chennai, January 17, 2020:\u00a0MGM Healthcare, a quaternary care hospital in the heart of the city, today announced the discharge of a unique pair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17953,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions\/17953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}