Government data reveals that every second heart attack patient in the subcontinent takes over 400 minutes to arrive at a hospital. That’s 13 times more than the ideal window of 30 minutes. The two-year data is from the ongoing Management of Acute Coronary Event(MACE) registry of the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR). It shows that […]
Claudio Vitale was 59 years old when he performed the surgery that gained him quite a bit of media attention in the west. The reason was not the prominence of the surgery itself but the way he performed it. To be more precise, he did it while having a heart attack. Vitale,a neurosurgeon in Naples […]