Mystery doctor saved dying baby with 2p rubber gloves in improvised 操作／手術 after telling parents: 'I've never done this before'

• One-month-old Jake Willett was の近くに to death from gut 感染
• Passing doctor overheard his 荒廃させるd parents 準備するing to say goodbye
• He made two incisions to drain 感染, using gloves to keep 負傷させるs open
  
• 栄えるing Jake now 16 months old, yet parents still don't know who saved him
  

By Harriet Arkell

Published: 13:52 BST, 16 January 2013 | Updated: 14:57 BST, 16 January 2013

A passing doctor who overheard grief-stricken parents 準備するing to say goodbye to their dying son saved the baby's life with a scalpel and a pair of 使い捨てできる rubber gloves.

荒廃させるd Jodi パン職人 and Brian Willett were told their month-old son Jake was about to die from an 感染 after his small intestine burst.

But a doctor …に出席するing another baby on the 区 （機の）カム over and 申し込む／申し出d to carry out an impromput stomach 操作／手術 - before 警告 them: 'I've never done this before'.

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So 感謝する: Brian Willett, Jodi パン職人, and their son Jake, who is now 16 months old and 栄えるing

He told Jake's distraught father: 'I'm going to try something on your son - it will either save his life or end things.'

Carpenter Mr Willett, 30, had no time to hesitate and agreed the doctor should try.

The 外科医 calmly reached into Jake's incubator, made two tiny 削減（する）s in his stomach with a scalpel, and drained the 感染, using a glove in each incision to keep the 負傷させるs open.

行方不明になる パン職人, 28, who had fled from her baby's 病人の枕元 in 涙／ほころびs, returned to the 区 to see a 2p blue surgical glove in each incision, letting the 感染 drain out out of her son's 団体／死体.

Before the life-saving 外科 Jake had been too ill to be transferred from Medway Hospital in Kent to London for specialist 治療.

But the '奇蹟' 手続き saved him and left him 井戸／弁護士席 enough to move to King's College Hospital, London where he underwent a six-hour-long 操作／手術.

Little 闘士，戦闘機: Jake Willett has 打ち勝つ a 目録 of health problems

Jake, who is now 16 months old, has made a 十分な 回復 and only has to return to hospital for check ups.

And remarkably, his parents still have no idea who the man who saved their baby's life was.

They believe the doctor is a heart 外科医 at London's 広大な／多数の／重要な Ormond Street Hospital, and was visiting heart 患者s in Kent at the time.

行方不明になる パン職人, a dental nurse, from Minster, Kent, said: 'The nurse called us into a room and she said "Jake is not going to 生き残る".

Tiny: Baby Jake 重さを計るd only 2lb 4oz when he was born in September 2011

On the road to 回復: Jake's father is now planning to raise 基金s for the charity that helped the family

'She said we should ask our family to come up to the hospital to say goodbye to Jake and she said she could call the priest for us.

'The nurses were crying too as they had been trying to save Jake. I was so upset I ran out of the room crying and threw up.

'Then Brian （機の）カム and 設立する me and told me what the doctor had said.

'The doctor had pulled Brian aside and said: "I'm going to try something on your son, it will either save his life or end things there and then."

'The doctor said he had never done the 手続き before, but Brian told him to try.

'I did not know what to think when I returned to see Jake with two plastic gloves sticking out of his tummy.

'But I was amazed that it had worked. I am so 感謝する for that doctor for saving Jake's life.

'Jake is an 絶対の 奇蹟. He's a really happy boy and now he eats everything and is putting on 負わせる.'

Jake's life was saved with rubber gloves after his father Brian Willett, left, agreed to let a mystery doctor try

Growing toddler: Jake was 発射する／解雇するd from hospital last March and doctors say he will make a 十分な 回復

Jake was born two months premature and 重さを計るing just 2lb 4oz after an 緊急 Caesarean in September 2011.

He started 伸び（る）ing 負わせる but at three weeks his stomach started to swell.

Doctors at Medway Hospital told Jake's parents he had a 条件 影響する／感情ing some premature 幼児s called Necrotising Enterocolitis where the small intestine tissue becomes inflamed and dies.

They watched helplessly as his stomach got larger and larger and turned a grey-黒人／ボイコット colour.

On October 20 they were 召喚するd to the hospital at 5am and told by a 顧問 that Jake had got 95 per cent worse in 24 hours.

His small intestine had burst inside him and they were told to call in other 親族s to say goodbye as he was ありそうもない to 生き残る.

Jake's only hope was to be transferred to King's College Hospital in London for an 緊急 操作／手術 but doctors said he was too weak to 生き残る the 旅行.

The good Samaritan doctor was 扱う／治療するing a baby girl with a heart 条件 on the same 区 when he overheard the grief-stricken parents.

At King's College Hospital 外科医s 除去するd 70cm of Jake's intestine.

He stayed in 集中的な care for next seven months and 戦う／戦いd through a 目録 of 複雑化s 含むing 17 輸血s and several resuscitations.

The baby also 契約d MRSA, developed 肝臓 failu re, 大きくするd ventricles on the brain, a small 穴を開ける in his heart, and an 感染 next to his heart, but still pulled through.

He was finally 発射する／解雇するd from hospital in March last year and doctors believe he will make a 十分な 回復.

Jake's father is now planning to do an endurance 実験（する） to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House Charity which housed him and 行方不明になる パン職人 in London while their son was in 集中的な care.

To sponsor Brian go to www.justgiving.com/jodi-パン職人