When the heart stopped but hope didn’t: The story of saving an ‘almost dead’ patient

“It is a dead body. There is no point in operating.” These were the words I heard from a senior colleague as I entered the operation theatre (OT) on January 22, 1993, the day of one of my early cardiac surgeries in India.

When the heart stopped but hope didn’t: The story of saving an ‘almost dead’ patient
“It is a dead body. There is no point in operating.” These were the words I heard from a senior colleague as I entered the operation theatre (OT) on January 22, 1993, the day of one of my early cardiac surgeries in India.