40-yr-old’s life saved by docs after heart attack

40-yr-old’s life saved by docs after heart attack

Pune: A 40-year-old man, who suffered cardiac arrest and came into the emergency department in an unresponsive state, was successfully revived by doctors at a city-based hospital. 

Doctors shared that time is the most crucial factor when it comes to reviving a person. 

The patient was attended to by Dr Zishan Godil and Dr Pooja Batra, Senior Emergency Physician in the Emergency Department of the Columbia Asia Hospital. They received the patient after more than 30 minutes of the attack. After primary examination, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), an emergency procedure that combines chest compressions often with artificial ventilation, was initiated that helped his heart start functioning after 30 minutes.

Dr Zishan Godil, Columbia Asia Hospital, Pune said that after his heart started working, they did an electrocardiography that showed he has suffered a massive heart attack.

“We sought guidance of Dr Pramod Narkhede, Senior Cardiologist at Columbia Asia Hospital, Pune and under his guidance, the patient was shifted to Cath-Lab for coronary angiography followed by angioplasty. Besides, he had several premorbid conditions diabetes and pancreatitis which reduced the rate of revival from cardiac arrest. These are the same factors which developed 80 per cent blockage in his left artery,” said Dr Godil.

He added that the patient had acidosis with low bicarb which prolonged hypoxia. 

“Very rarely such patients survive after prolonged cardiac arrest and we strongly advise such patients to undergo full health screening once a year. Due to the effective resuscitation efforts taken by the emergency response team at the hospital and prompt intervention by the cardiologist, the patient survived a massive cardiac arrest,” said Dr Godil.

The patient was under the care of Dr Pramod Narkhede in Intensive Care Unit for 30 days with hyperglycemia and bleeding tendencies and he went on to have full neurological recovery, something that is very rare in such cases, due to the collective effort made the team of doctors.

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