Notable extracts
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Dr Martyn Pitman
Monochorionic twins share a placenta. They have a single plumbing system. The possibility of blood volume imbalance between the two babies is not a remote risk — it is an ever-present feature of managing that kind of pregnancy.
Dr Martyn Pitman
There was no cardiac froth at post-mortem for these babies. A large intravenous air embolism, sufficient to kill, produces frothy blood in the right ventricle. Its absence should have been dispositive.