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...scan at a local hospital confirmed Lorri's battlefield diagnosis. Not only had the pencil pierced Nathan's heart, but it had penetrated a valve. He would need open-heart surgery--which meant Nathan had to be airlifted to the nearest cardiac surgeon and heart-lung machine, in Great Falls, 100 miles away...
...nearly three hours before Nathan finally made it to the operating table. A team led by Dr. Brett Williams--summoned from his own 45th-birthday celebration--put the right side of Nathan's heart into cardiac arrest, diverted his blood supply to the heart-lung machine and began repairing the damage. "There was absolutely no blood anywhere. It looked to be an immaculate perforation," Williams told TIME...
First, however, let us acknowledge that there are some good reasons why people in the professional world might need cell phones. A patient going into cardiac arrest and a retirement portfolio crashing come to mind as reasonable justifications for receiving a cellular phone call...
...local anesthetic. Except that it wasn't lidocaine; it was adrenaline, a powerful stimulant. A minute later Ben's blood pressure soared, and his heart began to race. Nine minutes later his blood pressure plunged, his heart rate dropped, his lungs filled with fluid, and he went into cardiac arrest. Within hours, Ben Kolb was dead...
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