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Well a Medstudent on my 5th year... (good enough for ya?)
First of all, the twins would have died in a relative short time anyway, they shared the Saggital sinus, Which drains the major part of the csf. They were having increased csf pressure which indicates problem with drainage. It also is a major single vein(not paired like most other veins, and is very special, this was the major problem during the operation. How to seperate into to two Saggital sinuses.
And they were also showing signs for having bloodflow problems to the brain.
The reason the hospital went through with this procedure, was simply, they wanted to help. The germans which turned them down, well one way of seeing it, is that they were to afraid to fail in the procedure.
The estimates of survival from the surgeons that performed the operations were initially 50%. But even on small children, or infants, its very rare that both survive. Therefore this is a very unlikely estimate. And in grown ups, the body can't stand an operation of that magnitude that well.
Still the doctors informed the patients about the risks, the twins knew that they would most probably die, but they still wanted tp try.
And Gurm, all doctors take the oath.
Yours.. JD.
First of all, the twins would have died in a relative short time anyway, they shared the Saggital sinus, Which drains the major part of the csf. They were having increased csf pressure which indicates problem with drainage. It also is a major single vein(not paired like most other veins, and is very special, this was the major problem during the operation. How to seperate into to two Saggital sinuses.
And they were also showing signs for having bloodflow problems to the brain.
The reason the hospital went through with this procedure, was simply, they wanted to help. The germans which turned them down, well one way of seeing it, is that they were to afraid to fail in the procedure.
The estimates of survival from the surgeons that performed the operations were initially 50%. But even on small children, or infants, its very rare that both survive. Therefore this is a very unlikely estimate. And in grown ups, the body can't stand an operation of that magnitude that well.
Still the doctors informed the patients about the risks, the twins knew that they would most probably die, but they still wanted tp try.
And Gurm, all doctors take the oath.
Yours.. JD.
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