Monday, October 13, 2008

'Dead' schoolboy brought back to life after heart attack

"County tennis champion James Doherty, 13, is one of the youngest people in the UK to have suffered a cardiac arrest. He suffered the heart attack while playing tennis and defied all odds to be brought back from the dead after he was given emergency CPR within seconds of collapsing. Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London hailed him as a miracle. Mum Sarah, 48 said: "The doctor who treated him said he was unique and it was extraordinarily miraculous that he survived. "I've been told that after your heart stops for more than 10 minutes your chances of survival are really remote." James, a top county tennis player with ambitions to become professional, was training at Hazelwood Tennis Academy in Enfield, Middlesex, on September 8th when he suddenly collapsed' - Telegraph

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