A 10-year-old boy was rushed to hospital with his heart 'visibly pumping our of his chest' at 301 beats per minute - one of the fastest rates ever recorded. Jack Searle's heartbeat reading was so high ...
A pensioner died after his chest was bled 'empty' when he was wrongly connected to a blood pumping machine and a hospital worker left the room. NHS staff failed to use enough clamps to disconnect ...
A girl aged just 18 months is the first child in the UK to be fitted with a portable ‘Berlin Heart’ pump as she waits for a transplant. The life-saving machine means Grace Westwood, who has a heart ...
A MUM has told of her heartbreak watching her newborn son’s heart pumping in his chest after it was left open for three days after surgery. Alana Watling, 20, said it was “really scary” to see her son ...
Jim Lynskey always has two battery packs and spare equipment with him Fifty years ago, renowned surgeon Christiaan Barnard carried out the world's first heart transplant, a technique that today has ...
A 10-year-old boy whose heart could be seen "pumping out of his chest" was found to have one of the fastest hearts rate in the world - three times over the normal rate. Football mad Jack Searle from ...
When the human heart stops, a race against the clock begins. Without the heart pumping blood around the body, the brain and other vital organs are starved of oxygen — and the chance of survival ...