Portable Equipment Saves Baby's Life
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USE OF PORTABLE SCANNER FOR ADULTS PERMITS JACKSON HOSPITAL TO OBTAIN VALUABLE INTERNAL IMAGES OF SMALL PATIENTS At only six months of age, the small Kenya already passed through a complex surgery that returned the normal function of her heart, saving her life, thanks to a new portable system of taking internal images, which enabled a better recovery. It is due to the CereTom Mobile CT Scanner, a portable machine of tomography for head and neck in adults to which, by initiative of the radiological team of the Jackson Memorial Hospital, has adapted a cradle that permits doctors to take the necessary images of a baby before and after a surgical procedure. Thus, it is not necessary to remove the small patient from the surgical room or of the intensive care unit while remaining in critical condition. '' In the case of Kenya, who required such special care, the machine helped us to observe the condition of her organs and internal structure in the abdomen as in the brain, after we reconstructed her heart. Even more critical, was that the baby could not be transferred from the department of radiology for the tests, so we brought the CTS portable to her bed in intensive care'', explains Dr. Marco Ricci, Director of the Department of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery of the School of Medicine of the University of Miami. Kenya was given a complete repair of the atrium ventricular due to a complex congenital abnormality of the heart. The surgery took five hours approximately. '' The diagnosis they gave me was when the girl was in my womb. She was born prematurely and the doctor explained to me that we must operate inside the first six months of life to be able to save it'', account Kenya Calis, mother of the baby. '' I have lived again. Is my first daughter and the suffering and the anguish were a lot. The hospital and the Church were converted for a long time in my homes; I give infinite thanks to God, and to doctor Ricci and to all the personnel of intensive care, because my daughter is a living miracle: her condition was really critical, there was a moment in which all her organs were inflamed. Already it is well and today we go home'', says Calis. The CereTom was key and played a success in this type of surgery.
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