After being "revived" after 90 minutes of cardiac arrest, Mr. TQ's health has recovered - Photo: AN BINH
On February 22, Long Khanh Regional General Hospital (Dong Nai) announced that it had successfully treated a 57-year-old patient who suffered a heart attack and had been in cardiac arrest for 90 minutes.
Previously, on January 27, the hospital admitted Mr. TQ (residing in Cam My district) with chest pain.
Doctors determined that the patient had signs of a heart attack and ordered an electrocardiogram.
However, right after the electrocardiogram was taken, the patient had severe chest pain and his heart rate dropped. The disease progressed rapidly, causing cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, and zero pulse and blood pressure.
Immediately afterwards, the hospital turned on "red alert" mode and mobilized all doctors and nurses to focus on emergency treatment for the patient.
For nearly an hour and a half, doctors inserted a breathing tube, performed chest compressions, injected 30 tubes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation drugs, and gave four electric shocks... but the patient's condition did not improve.
It seemed like a failure, but at the 90th minute, the patient's heart started beating again, causing the entire team to burst into joy. With a glimmer of hope, the doctors worked even harder to save the patient, reopening the right coronary artery (which had previously been completely blocked), helping the patient's pulse and blood pressure gradually return to normal.
After a day of resuscitation, the doctor discovered that the patient had multiple organ failure and immediately prescribed continuous dialysis for 48 hours. The patient responded well, liver and kidney function gradually improved, pulse and blood pressure improved, the patient was alert, could breathe on his own and was weaned off the ventilator.
Doctor Vo Chi Trung - Department of Cardiovascular Intervention, Long Khanh Regional General Hospital - said that this was an extremely rare emergency case and could be called a "miracle", never seen before. Because normally, patients with myocardial infarction who have cardiac arrest have a very poor prognosis. Even in cases where the patient is still conscious, stent placement is difficult to get through. Meanwhile, this patient had a cardiac arrest that lasted for 90 minutes.
"Usually, older patients with myocardial infarctions are allowed to go home after 30 minutes of cardiac arrest, but seeing that this patient was young, they kept trying until they couldn't take it anymore. Who would have thought that when they were about to give up, this patient's heart started beating again, and at that moment, the team was even more focused," Dr. Trung recounted.
Explaining the reason for the 90-minute emergency, Dr. Trung said that first of all, it was the family's earnestness, then the patient's young age. "In particular, the patient was diagnosed with a right coronary artery blockage. According to our experience and the instructors' experience, if the right coronary artery is blocked, we must save the patient at all costs. Because if we can save the patient, the patient's prognosis will be better than if the other coronary arteries are blocked," Dr. Trung said.
According to Dr. Trung, the success of the emergency surgery cannot be mentioned without the efforts of the medical team, especially the cardiovascular intervention team and the leaders who wholeheartedly supported the operation. "To actually be able to do such a surgery and see the patient discharged from the hospital has given us more motivation to do our job," Dr. Trung shared.
Currently, Mr. TQ's health has overcome the critical stage, his vital signs are stable, he is alert, has good contact, his chest pain has gone and he has been discharged from the hospital.
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