On Friday morning, it took doctors at University Hospitals Case Medical Center about an hour to perform a procedure that will allow a 10-year-old from central Ohio to breathe without a ventilator for the first time since 2004, when he was severely injured in a car accident.
The operation's success on the youngest child ever to have it will make it easier for other quadriplegic children to undergo the outpatient surgery and live more normal lives.
"It went well," said Dr. Raymond Onders, the surgeon who helped develop the diaphragm pacing system and pioneered the surgery.
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