{"id":396,"date":"2009-11-17T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T13:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=396"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:09:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:09:51","slug":"twins-are-separated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/twins-are-separated\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins are separated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hecqgcXzCwI.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/a.blip.tv\/api.swf#hecqgcXzCwI\" style=\"display:none\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>RCH Chief of Surgery A\/Professor Leo Donnan has announced that twins Krishna and Trishna, who were conjoined at the head, are now separated.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital neurosurgical staff, led by Dr Wirginia Maixner, successfully disconnected the final pieces of tissue at 11am this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A\/Professor Donnan described the separation as a relief.\u00a0 &#8220;For the hospital, this is a historic moment; for the girls, even more historic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The girls are healthy.\u00a0 Physiologically, the way their bodies have reacted to the surgery has improved,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>There are still hours of reconstructive surgery ahead of the girls this afternoon as plastic surgeons begin attaching synthetic coverings to cover the girls&#8217; brains.\u00a0 Extra skin created by tissue expanders will then be used to cover each girl&#8217;s skull.<\/p>\n<p>Once the operation is complete, the girls will be sedated for a number of days in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.<\/p>\n<p>A\/Professor Donnan said theatre staff were &#8220;well-nourished and supported&#8221;.\u00a0 &#8220;The staff look out for one another,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCH Chief of Surgery A\/Professor Leo Donnan has announced that twins Krishna and Trishna, who were conjoined at the head, are now separated. The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital neurosurgical staff, led by Dr Wirginia Maixner, successfully disconnected the final pieces of tissue at 11am this morning. A\/Professor Donnan described the separation as a relief.\u00a0 &#8220;For the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/twins-are-separated\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-396","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\/396","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}