Baby ‘frozen for four days’ as part of life-saving treatment

A SPECIALIST nurse described yesterday how a baby was deliberately frozen for four days in a life-saving treatment after he suffered complications following heart surgery.

Baby ‘frozen for four days’ as part of life-saving treatment

Finley Burton was 16-weeks-old when a hole in his heart and a narrowed aorta were repaired by cardiac surgeons.

The baby, from Easington Colliery, County Durham, then developed a rapid heart rhythm of around 200 beats per minute, which could have killed him.

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