an evening long-awaited a Lady Gaga concert turned into a nightmare for a Tennessee woman aged 33 years, whose heart has been restarted after shutdown for five minutes when she had a cardiac arrest.
Crystal Thornton, of Lyles, Tennessee, was enjoying Act on the opening of the concert at the arena of Bridgestone in Nashville with her best friend, Christina Tugman Tuesday evening when she had a seizure, according to information provided by Vanderbilt Medical Center.
"She stopped breathing, his eyes rolled back in his head and his body began jerking movements," said Tugman. "I asked if she was OK, and it was not responding."
Tugman ran to the lobby for assistance. It took Jerry Jones, an EMT supervisor with the program of LifeFlight event medicine at Vanderbilt University, a minute more to join it.
"The patient was unconscious with no heartbeat," said Jones.
Using a portable automatic external defibrillator, Jones and other paramedics spent more than five minutes, until what they could finally get the heart of Thornton flying once again.
It was then transported to the emergency of the Vanderbilt Medical Center, where doctors immediately used therapeutic hypothermia to cool the temperature of the body of Thornton to between 93 and 86 degrees - less than the normal temperature of the body of 98.6 degrees.
Even if his heart was working again, the doctors wanted to slow traffic to prevent the death of brain cells - and, therefore, brain injury - caused by the prolonged absence of oxygen. Chilled water blankets were placed on the body and the head of Thornton, and the medical staff then used a machine to lower its body temperature for 48 hours.
"The patient has received incredible care from the moment where she experienced problems at the Bridgestone arena," said Dr. Jared McKinney, Medical Director of the event LifeFlight medicine. "It is only through a team effort coordinated that its success was possible."
After two days of therapy of cooling, temperature of the body of Thornton was slowly restored to normal. It resumed consciousness and neurologically continues to improve, according to his doctors in Nashville.
On Friday afternoon, she was in a stable, said Hospital of Tennessee State.
His cardiologist, Dr. John McPherson, stated that Thornton is a battery of tests to determine why she suffered a heart attack. He told CNN that it seems she has a hypertrophy of the heart-"a genetic condition which, unfortunately, has no warning symptoms and often results in an emergency situation as Thornton has known".
Next week, she will have surgery to put a defibrillator implantable cardioverter in his chest. The device sends electric shocks which will be automatically start if his heart begins to beat irregularly and restore normal, in the hope of preventing another heart attack.
Leigh Sims, a technician of emergency medical and Vanderbilt of medicine, the event Manager, said that the defibrillator saved the life of the woman.
"Without a DEA, this patient would not survive," said Sims. "He restored his pulse."
While she is very grateful, it is an effect of blur for Thornton. And she did not have to be able to see Lady Gaga strut and sing on stage.
"I'm so crazy, that I missed the concert," she said, according to a statement issued by the hospital.
Tugman said Friday that she was grateful to have his friend back - including after another scare Thursday night, when "suddenly she stopped breathing, his eyes restored and all these machines started to away."
"They came and he shocked, and she returned to the right, said Tugman.".
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