{"id":1598,"date":"2012-01-18T05:23:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:55:37","slug":"samuels-life-saving-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/samuels-life-saving-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel&#8217;s life saving surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1670\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/01\/18\/samuels-life-saving-surgery\/untitled\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1670\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1670\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/Untitled-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Samuel Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At just three-weeks-old Samuel Hall\u2019s tiny heart suddenly failed. Fortunately the intuition of his mum, Suzanne Hall, and the work of Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH)\u00a0medical staff,\u00a0including cardiac surgeon Igor Konstantinov, meant that Samuel had a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The little boy was rushed to RCH Emergency after his mum Suzanne noticed symptoms including a change in his breathing. Just hours later he suffered a cardiac arrest and was in the RCH Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), he was then placed on a bypass machine. The following day Samuel went into surgery to repair what doctors found to be severe aortic stenosis, a condition where the heart\u2019s Aortic Valve is thickened and narrowed, restricting flow to the aorta.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel will need surgery later in life but the three-month-old is now a happy and bubbly little boy.<\/p>\n<p>Click below to watch the Seven News story on Samuel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hecqgufKXAA.html?p=1\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/a.blip.tv\/api.swf#hecqgufKXAA\" style=\"display:none\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Hall is now a happy three-month-old baby thanks to life saving cardiac surgery at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}