“When opening the patient’s chest, the heart stopped beating, purple,” the doctor recalled the life-and-death moment of the young man’s cardiac arrest˳
The team of doctors at Thong Nhat Hospital (HCMC) stayed up all night to save the male cardiac arrest patient’s life – Photo: Provided by the doctor
Share with Youth Online On the morning of July 15, Dr˳ BS Truong Nguyen Hoai Linh – thoracic surgery department of Thong Nhat Hospital (HCMC) – said that he had just saved the life of a male TQL patient (27 years old, living in Binh Chanh district) due to cardiac arrest due to cardiac arrest˳ stabbed in the “heart triangle” (between the left breastbone and the left nipple)˳
Previously, at 23:45 on July 12, Mr˳ L was transferred to the emergency department of Thong Nhat Hospital by a lower-level hospital in a state of apnea, with a stab wound to the “heart triangle”˳
The emergency department physicians immediately performed CPR to restore the patient’s heart rate, administer more vasopressors, and activate the red alarm˳
The emergency and surgical team agreed to skip the procedures, transfer the patient directly to the operating room, and at the same time prepare all the means, ready to open the patient’s chest urgently˳
At 0:00 on July 13, Dr˳ Linh and his team opened the patient’s chest, identified a puncture about 2cm in the front of the right ventricle, next to the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD)˳ At this point, the patient’s heart stopped beating again˳
When opening the patient’s pericardium, about 1,000ml of blood clots and dilute blood flow out˳ Doctors wash the pericardial cavity, massage the heart˳ The patient’s heart beats again˳ The surgery ended at 2am˳
By 6 am of the same day, the patient was fully awake, his limbs were moving well˳ The doctors concluded that the operation was an absolute success, leaving no sequelae˳
TS˳BS Truong Nguyen Hoai Linh – Thoracic Surgery Department of Thong Nhat Hospital (HCMC) – examines a male patient who had had a cardiac arrest due to being stabbed in the “heart triangle” – Photo: SPRING MAI
Currently, the patient is being monitored at the hospital’s thoracic surgery department, talking clearly: “I don’t know anything, when I woke up, I found myself lying in the hospital and had just or had a cardiac arrest˳”
Dr˳ Linh added that the patient was stabbed with scissors, the puncture site was next to the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD)˳ If the patient is stabbed in this position, the artery is broken, the patient will suddenly die on the emergency road˳
At the hospital, if the patient is not operated in time, the heart may stop permanently, or the patient’s heart will beat again but the cardiac arrest time is prolonged, blood is not pumped to the brain, leading to a lifelong coma˳
“When opening the patient’s chest, holding the heart in his hand, the heart stopped beating, purple˳ We released the pericardium to let the blood out, then the patient’s heart beat again, free from the scythe of death,” said Dr˳ Doctor Linh could not hide his joy when recalling the moment of reviving the patient’s life˳
A life reborn after cardiac arrest
Patient L˳’s mother was still shocked when she received the news that her child was stabbed in the heart˳
“Received the call that my son was stabbed in the heart, his eyes were wide, I thought he would not survive˳ The doctor reinvigorated my child’s life again”, she said and thanked the doctors very much˳
Race with ‘death’, save the patient who was stabbed in the heart ‘triangle’ area
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