新华医院在闭环管理中成功抢救先天消化道闭锁新生儿 - 2021年11月29日

Doctors at Shanghai Xinhua Hospital saved a premature one-month girl with an extremely low birth weight and congenital heart disease during lockdown for medical screening.

The girl, who was sent by an ambulance from Hangzhou in neighboring Zhejiang Province to Xinhua on Friday, was the younger of a pair of twin girls delivered at 32 weeks of pregnancy. She was only 1,050 grams upon delivery.

During a check 20 days after delivery due to breath shortness, Hangzhou doctors found she had serious aortic coarctation. The aorta is the main channel to transport blood for the heart. The problem can cause abnormal blood supply all over the body, especially the lower part.