Critical hours for Twins separated successfully in Chile

The next 24 to 48 hours are critical to the Siamese Chilean María Paz and Maria José, who were separated in a marathon operation in which participated 100 professional physicians.

El Dr. Carlos Acuña, head of the intensive care unit where they remain the babies, said at press accompanied by several of his colleagues that "the first 48 hours are the most critical in the sense of vital imminent risk of death".

He indicated that the biggest risk facing María Paz and María José is "a multisystem failure", which is when several bodies cease to respond almost simultaneous.

Girls show "lung and kidney failures", he added Acuña.

Hours before, the Coordinator medical Francisco Ossandón had said that "them girls completed its process of birth" to them 21.45 of el martes(0045_GMT), to el specify el time exact in that the Siamese were. u000aseparate.

"Previously had two souls and one only body", he added.

But the intervention was so complex, María José continued in the operating room until three o'clock in the morning of Wednesday (0600 GMT) and his sister María Paz, the most delicate, until the 04.15 (0715 GMT).

was the first to sleep in one bed then moved up to the UCI. His sister María Paz, that presents problems in the surrounding area to the heart, arrived one hour 15 minutes later.

In his 10 months of life, this is the first time that parents see them in separate beds and a relatively normal position. Girls do not even know their House, because since its inception been always hospitalized, connected machines and a ventilator. For now they are assisted by a respirator and remain sedadas between 48 and 72 hours.

Remain assisted by fan and SEDADAS
for now are assisted by a respirator and u000athey will remain sedadas between 48 and 72 hours, before returning to the operating room to make his wound cleaned.

At the second press of the day, Ossandón pointed out that it was not possible to "achieve completely cover the abdominal cavity or the thoracic cavity, which must resort to prosthesis are meshes of different type and these are bodies strangers that at times the body recognizes as outside them." "And this can lead to infections".

Ossandón explained that as they had an only straight and one year, one of them will live many years or forever with a colostomy.

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