Dubai Medical Team Saves Tourist’s Life After Hour-Long Heart Attack

A medical team in Dubai saved a 67-year-old Russian tourist from certain death, after he suffered a heart attack, and his heart stopped for nearly 60 minutes.

The medical team, led by Emirati doctor Abdullah Abdul Rahman Al-Hajri, a consultant cardiologist, performed an urgent operation for the tourist to restore the pulse, and he underwent complex surgery to dissolve clots in the arteries.

Dubai Ambulance received a report stating that the tourist had suffered a sudden heart attack and lost consciousness completely at dawn. Immediately, the patient was transferred within minutes to the emergency department of a private hospital in Dubai. The 60 minutes.

Dr. Abdullah Al-Hajri performed an urgent surgery to treat 4 arteries that were suffering from severe blockage, which made the surgery complicated, and required a great effort to dissolve the clots.

Al-Hajri said that the patient was in a state of clinical death and had a heart stop for an hour. He underwent cardiac resuscitation, catheterization, and the installation of 3 arterial stents and a medical balloon.

The operation, which lasted an hour and 30 minutes, was crowned with success, and the tourist recovered from the arterial blockage, and his health condition was completely stabilized.

The Russian tourist thanked the medical team, stressing that Dubai provides high-level medical services, in accordance with international health standards, noting that he received the best distinguished health care that saved his life.

The British “Health” magazine, a prestigious international magazine in the field of health, had praised the citizen doctor, Abdullah Al-Hajri, for his success in performing complex heart surgeries in the UAE and Britain.

And “Health” magazine stated that Dr. Al-Hajri performed complex heart surgeries to save cases of complete stroke, in the UAE and the United Kingdom, and succeeded in installing an innovative medical technique for cases of heart failure, to improve heart performance for the first time in Dubai, which saved patients from stopping the heart muscle. Al-Fajai, pointing out that the success of these surgeries is a medical achievement and evidence of the distinguished level of medical personnel in the UAE.