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Chinese girl with no heartbeat for six days recovers
Chinese doctors in the city of Shanghai managed to save a 10-year-old girl with no heartbeat for six days, AsiaOne reported.
According to the source, the girl was admitted to the Shanghai Children's Medical Center hospital at the end of May this year with complaints of nausea, shortness of breath, chest pain and high fever. She found a deadly inflammation of the heart - acute carditis.
The girl was placed in the intensive care unit and underwent extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) - emergency blood saturation with oxygen. The equipment used for ECMO provided support for the patient’s life for six days. All these six days, the doctors could not manage to start the girl's heart, and her condition was rapidly deteriorating.
After consulting with heart transplant specialists, the doctors decided that only a transplant could save the girl's life. On June 3, five doctors arrived in Tianjin first to obtain the heart through surgery at 3.30pm and returned to operate the transplant for the girl at the centre at 6.45pm. For a heart transplant, it is better to complete the process within six hours.
The girl is gradually recovering now.
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