{"id":7166,"date":"2018-11-09T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T05:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2020-08-06T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:39:24","slug":"twins-separated-after-successful-surgery-at-rch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/twins-separated-after-successful-surgery-at-rch\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins separated after successful surgery at the RCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Melbourne clinicians have successfully separated twins Nima and Dawa in a six-hour operation today.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7169 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/AJA_7650_pressrelease_4000pxw222-266x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/AJA_7650_pressrelease_4000pxw222-266x280.jpg 266w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/AJA_7650_pressrelease_4000pxw222-768x809.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/AJA_7650_pressrelease_4000pxw222-531x560.jpg 531w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/AJA_7650_pressrelease_4000pxw222.jpg 1518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s surgery involved a multi-disciplinary team of around 25 clinicians, including the Bhutan paediatrician who had treated them from birth and had flown over to observe the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Surgery Dr Joe Crameri, who led the team, said today\u2019s surgery went smoothly and the girls are now recovering well and breathing independently.<\/p>\n<p>The RCH team will continue to monitor the girls overnight before they are moved to a ward for their continued recovery and care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Melbourne clinicians have successfully separated twins Nima and Dawa in a six-hour operation today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":7167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}