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Abu Dhabi launches programme to monitor newborns awaiting corrective heart surgeries

Abu Dhabi: Newborn babies born with heart abnormalities in Abu Dhabi Emirate can now be safely monitored at home while they await corrective procedures. The Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha), the emirate’s public health provider, launched its Interstage Monitoring Programme, to monitor babies born with severe abnormalities, including hypoplastic left heart syndrome as well as other conditions in which only one side of the heart is functioning. Multiple surgeries Babies with these conditions normally have to undergo an initial open-heart surgery in their first few days of life, followed by a second surgery six months later. In between the two procedures the interstage period patients are discharged, and the new monitoring programme will make this fraught period safer.

Abu Dhabi: Home monitoring for babies with heart problems

Abu Dhabi: Home monitoring for babies with heart problems (Supplied photos) (Supplied photos) New programme helps monitor infants while they are at home waiting for their next cardiac surgery. Medics in Abu Dhabi can now track the wellbeing of newborns with heart problems as they remain at home. The new monitoring programme keeps them safe and healthy as they wait for their second open-heart surgery. The Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha) on Sunday announced that it has introduced the Interstage Monitoring Programme (IMP) for newborns with heart abnormalities that require multiple surgeries. Implemented by a dedicated and highly specialised group of physicians, nurses and administrative staff for the first time in the UAE, the programme helps monitor infants while they are at home waiting for their next cardiac surgery.

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