Dr. José Iglesias gave himself only a few seconds to admire his work. Situated in a Cook Children’s Medical Center operating room in Fort Worth on Monday,...
The rare surgery is a first for the pediatric hospital and one of only a few such operations attempted each year
“You get to pop out of that doctor-mode for just a couple of seconds because the whole room realized what happened,” said Iglesias, who led the surgery team. “And, all of a sudden you have to move one of the babies to the other table, which doesn’t usually happen in the operating room.” So, the expansive team divided into two. One side wore green scrub hats and focused solely on AmieLynn, while the other team wore purple and focused solely on JamieLynn. They printed 3D models of the twins’ chest and practiced what before, during and after the surgery could look like.
Doctors at Texas Health Harris Methodist, the hospital across the street from Cook Children’s where Arciniega delivered the twins, began building a team with specialists at Cook Children’s and beyond. Neonatologists Dr. Mary Frances Lynch and Dr. Chad Barber, who typically care for newborns, started mapping out how the twins would recover from surgery long before they exited the operating room. The medical staff gathered every piece of medical equipment the surgeons could possibly need if anything went wrong.
Raymond Arciniega held daughter Amanda Arciniega, mother of conjoined 16-week-old twins AmieLynn and JamieLynn Finley, during a news conference at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth on Wednesday. The girls were successfully separated during an 11-hour surgery Monday.
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