{"id":2514,"date":"2013-02-10T22:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T11:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:44:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:44:29","slug":"two-day-old-tommy-receives-life-saving-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/two-day-old-tommy-receives-life-saving-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy receives life saving surgery at two-days-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2517\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2013\/03\/05\/two-day-old-tommy-receives-life-saving-surgery\/untitled-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2517\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2517\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/03\/untitled-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuart and Carrie with baby Tommy. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Parents Carrie and Stuart Maxwell, learned of their son\u2019s condition after a 20 week scan revealed abnormalities in his heart. Doctors said that Tommy would be unlikely to survive more than a few hours without immediate surgery after birth.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy had his first open heart surgery at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) within the first 48 hours of his life. A few hours later, he suffered a cardiac arrest and on day 15, he endured his second lifesaving operation.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy was born with aortic stenosis, a potentially fatal condition where the aortic valve narrows abnormally. In addition, the left side of he&#8217;s heart had failed to develop properly and was perforated with a number of holes.<\/p>\n<p>For first time parents, Carrie and Stuart, Tommy\u2019s condition was devastating and stressful. The couple couldn\u2019t pick up and hold their newborn until four weeks after his birth.<\/p>\n<p>When his condition improved, he was eventually moved to a ward and then transferred to the family\u2019s local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The family praised the work of the surgeons, doctors and nurses at the RCH for the great outcome.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/baby-had-first-operation-within-48-hours-second-and-final-at-15-days-old\/story-e6frf7kx-1226574500746\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy was born with aeortic stenosis, requiring immediate open heart surgery to survive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"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-2514","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\/2514","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4922,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}