| Saturday, 21 April 2007 | ||
| Appointed time for Separation Of The Conjoined Cameroonian Twins All Times are Saudi Local time (GMT +3) |
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| Anesthesia | ||
| 07:30 | The twin have been in the Operation Room | |
| 7:45 | Both babies have been anesthetized with no problems | |
| 08:00 | the team is inserting the arterial line and the central venous lines | |
| 09:00 | Phase 1 completed successfully (breathing tubes have been inserted- central venous lines- arterial line) | |
| PHASE 2: Preparing & planning for Skin | ||
| 09:20 | This phase started few minutes ago by planning the incisions site then the preparation and positioning | |
| PHASE 3: Separation of the Chest, Liver & Bowel | ||
| 10:00 | Skin incision was made, followed by underling tissue, the incision was carried between 2 vaginae, and notice shared pericordum and liver. The separation of the liver and pericordum is taking place now | |
| 11:00 | The shared colon was separated successfully and the proximal part given to Shevoboh and the distal colon given to Pheinbom also the shared small bowel given to Shevoboh, and have been notice that each twin has enough small bowel to survive | |
| PHASE 4: Urology Separation | ||
| 12:00 | The team started the separation of the urinary bladder and the genital systems | |
| 01:00 | The urinary bladder and the upper genital systems have been separated successfully and the team is working now on the lower urinary and genital systems to complete this phase | |
| PHASE 5: Genital Separation | ||
| 02:00 | The urinary and the genital systems have been separated without any complications, and the team now will start the next phase | |
| 02:30 | The twin flipped to separate the shared abdominal wall and the shared pelvic wall with separated of the rudimentary lower limb | |
| PHASE 6: Joined lower extremity separation | ||
| 03:00 | The surgical team now separating the rudimentary shared lower limb | |
| 03:30 | The rudimentary lower limb has been successfully separated | |
| PHASE 7: Pelvis Separation | ||
| 04:00 | The orthopedic surgeons are separating the pelvic from the back then the rest of pelvic muscles separated will be separated as well | |
| 04:30 | The pelvic has been successfully separated | |
| PHASE 8: Twin Separation | ||
| 05:30 | The twins has been successfully separated & moved to separate beds for the first time. The Team will be divide to 2 teams A-B | |
| PHASE 9: Organs Reconstruction | ||
| 06:00 | Wounds for Shevoboh and Pheinbom are being closed | |
| PHASE 10: Dressing & Transferring twin to PICU | ||
| 10:45 | The " Dressing Phase " has been completed successfully | |
| 11:00 | The separation surgery for the Cameroonian Twins “Pheinbom & Shevoboh” has been completed successfully. The two girls have been transported to the PICU | |