Platts & Nisbett is proud to support the International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF), by providing surgical instruments for their mission trips around the world.

The International Children’s Heart Foundation recently made their first Babyheart Mission Trip to Skopje (Macedonia), carrying out life saving surgery using Platts & Nisbett surgical instruments. 

Led by Cardiovascular Surgeon Dr William Novick, the team consisted of one perfusionist, one intensivist, one anaesthesiologist, one respiratory therapist, one cardiologist, one biomedical engineer, one scrub nurse, one PICU nurse educator and four PICU nurses. The team came from four different countries, joining together to save the lives of eleven children with congenital heart defects. The team worked alongside the local staff at the University Clinic of Pediatric Surgery, to teach them the latest techniques in taking care of children with these conditions.

The eleven children received life saving operations which would not have been possible without the work of the International Children’s Heart Foundation. Ten out of the eleven children were under one year old, with the youngest being only fifteen days. The team carried out various procedures, including VSD Closure, MPA Patching & Pulmonary Artery Debanding, and Senning Atrial Switch. Without surgical intervention, these children would have a poor quality of life and be likely to suffer from heart failure before adulthood. Due to the work of the International Children’s Heart Foundation, these children can now go on to live normal healthy lives.

To find out more about this Babyheart Mission Trip to Macedonia, please click here.

Trip Reports on future Babyheart Missions will follow, as Platts & Nisbett surgical instruments continue to travel around the world with the Babyheart team. We are pleased to be one of the many supporters assisting the charity in carrying out their life saving work.

If you can help the International Children’s Heart Foundation in any way, please visit www.babyheart.org.