Set the mother remarried a few years later the new husband was not interested so we became wards of the state. Host how did you become involved . Guest i was interested in conjoined twins had the blue reading a lot about them and 1987 in modern times now we think it is ancient but, as i read i if i may conclude it was bleeding to death was the problem and i was talking to a friend who was the chief of pediatric surgery and he had a lot of experience with hypothermic arrested had done a lot of research in which basically you cool the body temperature and pump the blood out in the heart stops and you can operate on a child up to an hour before you have to warm up the blood and i was thinking during the critical time during separation of you to go into hyperthermia arresting get the vessels reconstructed maybe there would not bleed to death. Then i said wait a minute. I will never see that but two months later here came the german doctors presenting the case to know if anybody had a solut
Conjoined twins out of the blue, and i started reading a lot about them and i was trying to figure out why were the results so dismal . This is 1987. Modern time now we think of it as ancient but those times and as i read and read, finally concluded it was bleeding to death, which seemed to be the big problem. And i was talking to a friend who was the chief of surgery at the time and he had a lot of experience with hype othermic arrest, and he had done research and practiced a technique in which basically you cool the body temperature, pump all the blood out, the heart stops, and you can operate on a child for up to an hour before you have to warm the blood up and infuse it back in. And i was thinking, wow, joint the critical time during the separation, if you could go on hypothermic rest, reconstruct it and then start things up, macthe wouldnt bleed to death. Then i was saying, why am i thinking about this . Im never going to see a set of those twins. Lo and bee hold, two months later
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The crucial key to stopping it. We have a simple message for all countries test, test, test. Some countries have really cracked how to do this. South korea, with its drive through ten minute tests, is held up as a model for others to follow. But many countries are struggling to test at scale. In the uk, testing is having to be limited the cost, the infrastructure, the time the test takes are all holding up the battle against the disease. Now, there are dozens of efforts going on around the world to try and solve this. And jen has been looking at one close to home in west london. Around the world, companies and increasingly individuals, are racing to find ways to accurately test people for the coronavirus. The situation is changing daily, if not hourly. We simply dont have mass testing
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Health and not for the first time. Awoken us is a cult. It lets you die before the admitted diversity is not her strength. So fastforward to today. What began as a regional outbreak in the city of wuhan, china is now spreading across europe. Parts of italy shut down tonight and Catholic Services in in some places funerals have been suspended indefinitely. Take a look at a Grocery Store in milan. Italys industrial capital, the buying in bulk with a Natural Disaster which this is and its moving fast. Confirm thousands of cases of the disease so far and japan with infectious at the same level. The virus has been reported in iran. At least 12 people have died so far but one lawmaker says the real death toll is at least 50. Apparently International Sanctions dont stop the coronavirus. On friday, the centers for Disease Control warned that its possible, even likely that america will have a general coronavirus outbreak as well. That shouldnt surprise you. China is the worlds most sophisticate