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iUNDAY

EXPRESS

23rd JULY, 1961

Man's heart stops

but he tives on

npHE heart of a 52-year-old man stopped after a minor opera-SUNDAY EXPRESS REPORTER^

but within (he four-minute deadline in such cases his chest hadA tion at Johannesburg’s South Rand Hospital last week,

been opened and hand-massage restored him to life.

He was ’dead'

thin? wrong. When the surgeon One ot Lhe staff noticed some­

arrived. Mr. Jeffery's heart had slopped Ke was "dead."

in his ch?st and for 30 minutes An eigh;-inch incision was made

only the skill of the team kept him alive Oxygen was pumped

down hLs throat, injections were made directly into h:s heart. The

hea-t itself was hand-massaged fhroughou; the emergency A de-

ftbrolation machine was several times.

The Natal Mercury,
DURBAN, WEDNESDAY,

Miss Gillanderes said

the child was clinically

dead when the team ar­

rived. There was neither

heartbeat, blood pressure

nor breath and his pupils

were dilated.

‘A neighbour had a l­

ready started resuscitation

before we arrived. We pat

through an air way to help

him start breathing, we

used drugs and we tried to

shock his heart into work­

ing with the paddles.'

Brain damage

He was sieved to hospital

where doctors aided the re-

snscitatiea hid and about

1# minutes later the moni­

tor indicated his heart had

begun to pump.