Lakshmi's surgery took month-long planning: Doctor

PTI / Nov 9, 2007, 12:06 IST

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The 36-member specialist team, which operated on two-year-old Lakshmi to separate her from her parasitic twin, had spent a month planning each and every process.

Lakshmi's surgery took month-long planning: Doctor

BANGALORE: The 36-member specialist team, which operated on two-year-old Lakshmi to separate her from her parasitic twin, had spent a month holding discussions and meticulously planning each and every process of the surgery.
"We spent a month on planning every detail," Dr Ashok Kaul, chief plastic surgeon of the super-speciality Sparsh Hospital, where the complex surgery was conducted, said.
"It was highly challenging and difficult operation ahead of us and we planned each component of the operation meticulously," Kaul, who was a member of the team that conducted the 27-hour-long surgery, said.
"We broke the entire surgery into various components. Each team was given a specific task to look at, followed by the next team, which would do their work. Each team worked out the details of the operation," he said.

The operation, which he described as the first of its kind in India, was the product of a group effort. "It required very close coordination", he said.
Weeks before the surgery, the team met frequently and discussed reports of the various tests she was subjected to, including CT scan and blood, urine and other medical tests.
Just a week before the operation, the team planned and reviewed the minute details of the operation.
On whether they had sought advise from peers and other medical journals, he said that reading reference material on similar surgeries was part of the planning.
However, this kind of surgery being very rare, perhaps just a dozen in the world, there was not much to fall back upon, he said.

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