{"id":51828,"date":"2025-11-13T21:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51828\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:16:58","slug":"cardiac-arrest-survivor-reunites-with-lifesaving-medical-team-at-dignity-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51828\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiac arrest survivor reunites with lifesaving medical team at Dignity Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heartwarming reunion took place at Dignity Health Memorial Hospital as a cardiac arrest survivor met the medical team that saved his life. The patient, a man in his 40s, suffered a cardiac arrest at home. Fortunately, a family member was present and began hands-only CPR while emergency services were called. The patient was initially taken to Mercy Southwest Hospital before being transferred to Memorial&#8217;s STEMI receiving center, where his blocked vessel was reopened.<\/p>\n<p><p>KBFX<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ajay Patel, the cardiologist who treated the patient, inserted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abiomed.com\/en-us\/products-and-services\/impella\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Impella device<\/a>, the world&#8217;s smallest heart pump, to assist the heart&#8217;s recovery. Michelle Shain, director of cardiac neurology, emphasized the importance of CPR, stating, &#8220;Had she not initiated CPR when she did, his outcome could have been a very different story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reunion allowed the survivor to express gratitude to the first responders, medical staff, and nurses who played crucial roles in his recovery. Shain noted, &#8220;It&#8217;s very satisfying for staff to be able to see the patients that they care for and what their outcome is looking like now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heartwarming reunion took place at Dignity Health Memorial Hospital as a cardiac arrest survivor met the medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-51828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}