At about 12:15 they were warming Michael back up, they have to cool him down for the bi-pass machine. There is still about 1 1/2 hours of surgery after that.
The repairs are done. The repair of the artery to the gut and legs was a surprise. Instead of being severely restricted it was a complete dead end. No blood could get through. (remember they were keeping another artery open with medication that normally closes the first week of life to get blood down there)So he had to reconstruct the artery from his tissue.
This meant that the AP window he could not reconstruct with tissue, so this was fixed with a synthetic patch.
They still don't know if they will keep his chest open for a while after surgery in the PICU.
They will be doing an ECHO to be sure that everything looks OK before they finish.
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