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Colin Fiedler was brought back to life after suffering a heart attack and being dead for 40 minutes Picture: JON HARGEST Northern Territory News, Darwin 13 May 2013, by Christian Dougherty General News, page 11 - 482.47 cm² Capital City Daily - circulation 17,782 (MTWTFS) Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) licensed copy ID 193770794 PAGE 2 of 2 back Colin Fiedler was brought back to life after suffering a heart attack and being dead for 40 minutes Picture: JON HARGEST
Heart attack victims gone for over 40 minutes Hobart Mercury, Hobart 13 May 2013, by Christian Dougherty General News, page 2 - 301.06 cm² Capital City Daily - circulation 40,638 (MTWTFS-) Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) licensed copy ID 193774289 PAGE 1 of 2 back Heart attack victims gone for over 40 minutes Patients back from thedead could ever say,’’ he said. CHRISTIANDOUGHERTY andLUCIEVANDENBERG A VICTORIAN man who was clinically dead for more than half an hour has been brought back to life by an Australianfirst resuscitation technique. Dandenong’s Colin Fiedler, 39, is one of three cardiac arrest patients brought back to life at The Alfred Hospital after being dead for 40 to 60 minutes. He was saved using two new techniques being trialled at the hospital – a mechanical CPR machine that performs constant chest compressions, and a portable heart-lung machine that keeps oxygen and blood flowing to vital organs. Mr Fiedler had a heart attack and was clinically dead for 40 minutes before being revived last June. ‘‘I’m so grateful, more than I could ever say,’’ he said. So far seven cardiac arrest So far seven cardiac arrest patients have been treated with the AutoPulse machine and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. The new approach allows doctors to diagnose the cause of a cardiac arrest and treat it while keeping blood and oxygen flowing to vital organs to reduce the risk of permanent disability. Mr Fiedler returned home without disability. In the ambulance he was given the choice of two hospitals, he said. ‘‘For some reason I said The Alfred, which is pretty lucky because they are the only one that has it.’’ Since his heart attack he has turned over a new leaf, quitting smoking and no longer sweating over small things. things. At present the revival system is only available at The Alfred. But senior intensive care physician Professor Stephen Bernard said the results from the first two years of the trial were exciting and he hoped eventually to expand it across Melbourne. Prof Bernard said it required three trained intensive care physicians and all the machinery ready to go on-site, which no other hospital in Victoria currently had. AutoPulse is only available in three ambulances, but he said the company that distributed the CPR machine had offered to provide more. ‘‘We are looking to where to best implement these machines,’’ he said.
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