The ground breaking operation took place in the Arrixaca Hospital
The Arrixaca hospital in Murcia has performed open heart surgery on a premature baby for the first time.
The baby was born at 27 weeks and weighs no more than 800 grams.

He remains in a critical condition because of the lack of oxygen reaching the partially developed organs.  The operation took place on April 25 but details have only just been released.
A surgical team was led by the cardiovascular surgeon Ramón Arcas, and is now recovering in the Intensive Care unit.

......Stephens gave birth to her son Palmer early the next morning. He weighed 3 pounds, 15 ounces. Palmer spent the next 18 days in Covenant's neonatal intensive care unit. Unfortunately, Stephens' story isn't an unusual one. In the United States, 12.8 percent of babies are born before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy, and in Texas, 13.6 percent of babies are born prematurely, according to the March of Dimes, whose mission is to improve babies' health by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality...........

...Until that happened on Friday, four-month-old Sarah had spent all of her 112 days, bar one, at the Royal Children's Hospital. She was born nine weeks early, weighing only 735g, and has since had three operations on her tiny heart and bowel....

....Mrs Kean gave birth to her 756g daughter, Isabel, on March 3. Isabel had major surgery within hours of birth, but has made an impressive recovery. She will spend at least another six weeks in the RCH gaining strength.....

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