342000login-checkMan’s Sudden Heart Failure Led to US’ First Artificial Heart Transplant |
“Rachel Moore thought her husband Matthew was pulling one of his usual stunts. The 39-year-old, who’d won Rachel over almost 14 years before with his sly wit, suddenly slumped over in his hospital recliner at Duke University Hospital, where he’d arrived June 15 expecting to undergo heart bypass surgery
But when she saw her husband’s tongue sticking out and his eyes dilate, “I started screaming,” Rachel, a nurse, told Insider.
For 45 minutes, clinicians performed chest compressions. They shocked his heart 16 times. Finally, he stabilized, but his life remained in danger for weeks as machines — and five more shocks — kept him alive.”
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342000login-checkMan’s Sudden Heart Failure Led to US’ First Artificial Heart Transplant |