The patient remained in ICU for 45 minutes. (Representational Image)
As per the American Heart Association, CPR is generally stopped after 40 minutes if there is no return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) or heartbeat
A Nagpur man was recently discharged from the hospital after he suffered a massive heart attack in August that made him lose his heartbeat for over an hour. The doctors revived him after 45 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
According to the Times of India, the 32-year-old patient had a heart attack on August 25 after which he was brought to the hospital. He reportedly had no heartbeat for over an hour but the doctors managed to revive him after performing CPR for over 40 minutes.
The man had been in the ICU for 45 days after that and was discharged on October 13, the report stated.
Notably, as per the protocol by the American Heart Association, CPR is generally stopped after 40 minutes if there is no return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) or heartbeat.
However, in this case, cardiologist Lohiya, who was treating the man chose to overshoot the 40-minute threshold because of the patient’s age and ventricular fibrillation seen on the monitor, and the heartbeat was finally restored after some time.
“If ventricular fibrillation is seen, defibrillation shocks are used along with cardiac massage. This helps in restarting the heart,” he said. Ribs are fractured due to prolonged CPR and repeated shocks cause skin burns. “This patient didn’t suffer any of these two side-effects because of good CPR,” the report quoted Dr Lohiya as saying.
The patient, who works at an IT company, complained of a burning sensation for 3-4 days before the heart attack and fell unconscious twice before reaching the KIMS-Kingsway Hospital on August 25.
