Post by Mary Fischer
There's nothing worse than when your baby is sick and you feel powerless to help him, so you can only imagine how awful it was when a mom in the U.K. found out her baby had a rare heart condition and may not survive. Little Edward Ives was born with supra ventricular tachycardia or SVT, which was causing his tiny heart to beat at over 300 beats per minute. He only had a five percent chance of survival, but physicians at University College London Hospital decided to try a breakthrough treatment to save his life. Doctors froze Edward for four whole days, bringing his core body temperature down to 33.3 degrees Celsius.![]()
There's nothing worse than when your baby is sick and you feel powerless to help him, so you can only imagine how awful it was when a mom in the U.K. found out her baby had a rare heart condition and may not survive. Little Edward Ives was born with supra ventricular tachycardia or SVT, which was causing his tiny heart to beat at over 300 beats per minute. He only had a five percent chance of survival, but physicians at University College London Hospital decided to try a breakthrough treatment to save his life. Doctors froze Edward for four whole days, bringing his core body temperature down to 33.3 degrees Celsius.