Sun Luming stared at the B-ultrasound projection on the big screen and calmly commanded. A woman and a baby are pictured
China News Online, March 4 (Chen Jing, Gao Yan) At present, 5G technology empowerment has broken down the barriers of time, space and professional disciplines, making "in the midst of planning, winning thousands of miles away" become a reality.
The reporter learned on the 4th that in the telemedicine center of the fetal medicine department of the Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital (hereinafter referred to as "a woman and baby"), Sun Luming, director of the fetal medicine department and deputy director of the prenatal diagnosis center of the hospital, stared at the B-ultrasound projection on the big screen and calmly commanded. At the same time, in an operating room in Fuzhou City, more than 770 kilometers away from Shanghai, Lin Na, director of the Prenatal Diagnosis Center of Fujian Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, successfully completed the hospital's first case of "radiofrequency ablation and fetal reduction without heart-teratism" under the "guidance of cloud surgery" by Sun Luming.
Sun Luming said in an interview with reporters on the 4th that the pregnant woman on the operating table is a twin mother who is 19 weeks pregnant. A baby in the belly was diagnosed with a rare fetal disease, the twin heartless teratosis sequence. This is a rare complication in monozygotic twins. The expert explained: "Simply put, this mother has a heartless fetus in her stomach, and its blood supply comes from another normally developing fetus, that is, a 'pumping child'. This 'pumping child' not only needs to meet the needs of its own blood circulation, but also bears the blood supply of the 'heartless fetus', whose heart load is getting larger and larger, and eventually heart failure occurs. If treatment is not received in time before deliverance, more than 50% of 'pumped blood' will experience perinatal deaths. Therefore, the sequence of twin heartless teratities is a critical illness in fetal disease. "Due to the rarity of the cases, only a few hospitals in China, including a woman and a baby, currently have the ability to accurately diagnose such diseases and carry out intrauterine treatment.
The new technology platform based on "5G + artificial intelligence" will create more new models of diagnosis and treatment. A woman and a baby are pictured
It is reported that the intrauterine surgery completed by Shanghai and Fujian doctors is guided by ultrasound through radiofrequency ablation technology to accurately coagulate the blood vessels from the "pumped blood" in the body of the "heartless fetus" and block the blood supply, thereby increasing the survival rate of the "pumping child" to 80-90%.
"Although we have also done radiofrequency ablation and fetal reduction before, this is the first time that it has been used in cases of cardiac teratology sequence signs." Director Lin Na said. It is reported that as a cooperative unit of the Department of Maternal and Infant Fetal Medicine, many doctors from the Prenatal Diagnosis Center of Fujian Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital have gone to a department of maternal and infant fetal medicine for further study. She said: "I would like to invite Director Sun Luming over this time, but I can't make the trip due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic." Today I tried the 'on the cloud' remote surgery guide and it worked well. This real-time communication without delay brings a great sense of security to both the surgeon and the patient. ”
"This high-definition ultrasound real-time image transmission and full barrier-free communication made me feel as if I were in an operating room in Fuzhou." Sun Luming lamented that this new technology platform based on "5G + artificial intelligence" will surely create more new models of diagnosis and treatment. She said that she believes that on this platform, doctors can also complete more kinds of intrauterine surgeries, such as remotely guided fetal microscopic surgery. (End)