Just a few days ago we talked about what happens when the mother dies are pregnant, what is done to try to save the life of the baby or babies, as in this case.
The Brazilian Frankielen da Silva Zampoli Padilha suffered a hemorrhage that caused her brain death while pregnant with two babies with just nine weeks of gestation. The doctors, along with her husband, they decided to keep her alive for 123 days so that her twins could be born. He has been the person with brain death who has been alive the longest.
A very difficult decision
Without a doubt, it must have been a very hard time for Muriel Padilha, the father of the babies. His wife, with whom he already had a two-year-old girl, died suddenly when he had recently known the happy news of his pregnancy. When his wife arrived at the hospital and detected the beats of the babies, the doctors did not hesitate to move on.
Doctors in these cases have the obligation to do everything possible to save the lives of unborn babies, and given the characteristics of their mother's death, they could try connecting it artificially until they were sufficiently developed to be able to be born. Mother it worked as an incubator for four months to gestate their babies, still being lifeless.
"Frankielen's organs were intact and worked as if she were still with us. We made the decision to keep her alive to save her unborn children. And every day we saw them grow normally," said Dr. Dalton Rivabem, director of the Unit of Neurological Intensive Care of the Nosso Senhora do Rocio Hospital in Campo Largo, south of Brazil.
The babies, Asaph and Anna Victoria, they were born by caesarean section with seven months of gestation and they were in incubators and were kept under observation for a couple more months in the hospital.
After the birth of the twins, Frankielen's respirator was turned off and his heart and kidneys were donated to save the lives of two other people.
