title: Intensive care of conjoined twins.
abstract: Conjoined twinning is one of the most uncommon congenital anomalies. Maintenance in an intensive care setting during this time allows for close monitoring, stabilisation, and nutritional supplementation of the infants as necessary to optimise preoperative growth and development. The birth of conjoined twins is a very difficult and dramatic moment for parents. It is also a very difficult situation for the team of physicians, nurses and other required hospital staff to carry out treatment and care of these specific developmental anomalies. The diagnostics and treatment in this extraordinary situation requires close cooperation of the multidisciplinary medical team, which includes their personal experience and medical knowledge, with a team of intensive care unit nurses. This report presents the rules in cease of conjoined twins during their intensive care unit stay with special reference to the proceedings before and after complete separation.
authors.affiliation: Chair of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, University Children Hospital, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. kkobylarz@usdk.pl.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kobylarz
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011247:Pregnancy; D014428:Twins, Conjoined / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery