Sixty-year-old woman who suffered multiple cardiac arrests, resuscitated and treated in Hyderabad

The patient initially collapsed due to cardiac arrest at a private hospital, where she was resuscitated before reaching Care Hospitals for advanced care

Hyderabad: A 68-year-old woman who suffered multiple episodes of cardiac arrest was successfully resuscitated and treated at Care Hospitals, Banjara Hills.

The patient initially collapsed due to cardiac arrest at a private hospital, where she was resuscitated before reaching Care Hospitals for advanced care. On arrival, the patient’s condition became critical with her heart pumping only at 25 percent. She also experienced continuous episodes of life-threatening arrhythmias i.e. irregular heart beating including ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF).

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Care Hospital in a press release described both VT and VF as life threatening conditions that can cause heart attack, myocarditis of viral origin, or cardiomyopathy related to diabetes. To stabilize, the patient was placed on a mechanical support device called an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) in conjunction with ventilator care.

Despite these interventions, her abnormal heart rhythms persisted. Doctors found no critical blockages in her coronary arteries during angiography. However, a stellate ganglion block was treated to suppress irregular heartbeats, Dr. V. Surya Prakasa Rao, Clinical Director and Head, Cardiology, Care Hospitals said. After a two-week stay, the patient was discharged in a stable condition.