For 45 minutes a team of four doctors worked hard to revive him.
Gujarat-based Jaysukbhai Thaker lay motionless on a hospital table in Chennai after a massive cardiac arrest.
Code Blue, Code Blue, Code Blue was blaring on the hospital floor. Even if you aren’t familiar with Grey’s Anatomy lingo, you must know this is hardly a code. It means a patient is dying.
The 37-year-old patient suffered from an end stage genetic disorder which was slowly decreasing his heart’s ability to pump blood. A week before the miraculous episode where doctors brought him back from the dead, he was admitted in Fortis hospital, Chennai for a possible heart transplant.
Two months ago, one day his blood pressure suddenly dipped, heart stopped beating, he turned pale and cold. In a jiffy the ward went in Code Blue. Four doctors including a respiratory therapist, a nurse desperately tried to revive him with CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation) for 45 minutes.
And then there was a slight flutter and the heart started beating.