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A 61-year-old man with heart disease was saved one whole hour after his heart stopped beating thanks to the continuous resuscitation efforts of doctors in China.
The man’s wife called an ambulance last month after finding him losing consciousness at home in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
When doctors arrived, they found the man had already undergone cardiac arrest. The doctors started resuscitation and electric defibrillation in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
The man regained a weak heartbeat so doctors at the hospital decided to transfer him to a bigger hospital immediately.
After doctors used a ventilator on the man, he still remained in a critical condition. He was in a deep coma with low blood pressure and could not breathe independently. The man was later sent to the intensive care unit where he stayed for two weeks.