EXIT procedure: a report of the first three Mississippi cases

The University of Mississippi Medical Center has initiated a state-of-the-art fetal center. This project involves collaboration between multiple disciplines including anesthesiology, pediatric surgery, maternal-fetal medicine, radiology, neonatology, genetics, pediatric cardiology and other pediatric subspecialties, nursing, and social work. Complicated fetal patients from throughout the southeastern U.S.A. may be referred to this center and benefit from new and innovative interventions that have not been available to this region in the past. The first three EXIT (ex-utero intrapartum treatment) procedures were recently performed at Batson Children's Hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Our objective is to share our recent experiences with this novel procedure and to detail some of the basics of an EXIT delivery.