British doctors have saved the life of a child who was born with virtually no blood. The boy was the victim of a very rare disease.
Little Oliver Morgan immediately after birth need services of the best children's resuscitation. Initially, doctors feared that the boy was born dead, because in 25 minutes they could not detect his heart. But the oxygen mask and heart massage help the child breathe. However, his body was almost not a single drop of blood.
Oliver was the victim of extremely rare defect known in medicine as vasa previa - in the womb of his mother formed additional Vienna. For a period of 37 and a half weeks, she snapped that required emergency hospitalization and the woman to the hospital. And local doctors who conducted cesarean section They saw that the child is not at all the blood.
Doctors began to supply the newborn blood through the umbilical cord still preserved. He was born at 5.12 am, but his heart has earned only 5.37. With each new cube of blood the baby's heart was beating more confidently and smoothly. His mother was at the time caesarean section under anesthesia, and she did not know anything about what's going on with Oliver.
The child was taken to the emergency room, where doctors decided to lower his body temperature to 33 degrees in order to save it from possible complications. This allows you to direct blood away from the skin to the brain and heart. Three days later, it began to slowly increase the temperature by half a degree per day. Eventually, it was brought to 37 degrees. After 11 days, the baby grew stronger so that it gave the 42-year-old mother and seven-year-older brother Jack.
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