Tuesday, April 28, 2009
1)What are some of the problems involved in separating a conjoined twin?
2)If you were a part of a conjoined twin, would you rather stay together with your twin for the rest of your life or would you risk both your lives to go for an operation? Why?
ANSWERS
What are some of the problems involved in separating a conjoined twinThree of four twins joined at the head who were seperated in operations here are dead, and the fourth is not in good shape.Seperating a conjoined twin has a great risk as most of operation to seperate conjoined twin failed, surgeons might also have to pick one twin to die to save the other,even those who survive would often be left with a brain damage. International studies have shown that the chances of surviving surgery for 40 pairs of twin joined at the head was rated 50:50. That is why Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan suggested thar docters should reconsider plans to seperate yet another pair of such conjoined twins. Mr Khaw also said that docters would likely end up harming gthe patients and should not attempt such opperations. He also said that the outcome of the two opperations in Singapore "reafirmed these awful statistics". But for twins joined at the head, Mr Khaw hoped the ethics committees in hospitals would dissuade doctors from attempting to seperate them. He told the docters that although life as a conjoined twin would appear to be intolerable, there are conjoined twin who have progressed to adulthood. Thus in some situation, it may be better not to operate on these patients. To change the course of nture may do more harm than good. One of the major problem during the operation is making sure that blood supply to both brains is maintained at all times.I think that further test and investigations should be done before the docter decides whether surgery can or should be done, even one of the most extreme forms of congential malformation and deformity should be given a chance to live a normal life.
If you were a part of a conjoined twin, would you rather stay together with your twin for the rest of your life or would you risk both your lives to go for an operation? Why?
If i were a part of a conjoined twin, I would not like to stay together with my twin for the rest of my life, i would rather risk both our lives to go for an operation. Although going through the operation could be dangerous, but living together with a twin is very inconvienient, we must do every thing together . We will not have our own privacy and it would be very troublesome.
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