Clinically it is called deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA). A surgical technique in which the patient’s heart and the brain are shut down during the procedure. The normal human body temperature is 37°C and humans quickly die if the core body temperature drops below 22°C. In this technique. The body temperature was lowered to 15°C to successfully remove a 200 gm cancerous tumor that had grown inside and outside a two-year-old boy's heart.
The kid was rendered clinically dead as a team of 30 doctors operated upon him for removal of intracardiac yolk sac germ cell tumor in the heart , an extremely rare condition. His heartbeat and brain activity was stopped for 40 minutes during the surgery and he was restored back to life after the procedure . The lead doctor on the team commented that the surgery was the fifth such successful surgery performed in the world. In all the four other…
