Tennessee matron resuscitated behind h dre headpho

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(CNN) -- A long awaited night out at a Lady Gaga agreement cornered into a nightmare for a 33-year-old Tennessee woman, whose heart was restarted after stopping for five minutes when she went into cardiac arrest.

Crystal Thornton, from Lyles, Tennessee,dre headphones, was enjoying the concert's opening deed at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville with her best friend Christina Tugman on Tuesday night while she had a seizure, according to message provided by Vanderbilt Medical Center.

"She stopped breathing, her eyes coiled behind in her head, and her body began twitching," Tugman said. "I was asking if she was OK, and she wasn't responding."

Tugman ran to the hall to get help. It took Jerry Jones, an EMT supervisor with Vanderbilt University's LifeFlight Event Medicine agenda, 1 minute more to reach her.

"The patient was senseless with no heartbeat," Jones said.

Using a portable automated outer defibrillator, Jones and other paramedics spent more than 5 minutes until they were eventually able to get Thornton's heart beating again.

She was then airlifted to Vanderbilt Medical Center's emergency department, where doctors instantly used medical hypothermia to chilly Thornton's body temperature to between 93 and 86 degrees -- under the normal body temperature of 98.6 degrees.

Even whereas her center was working repeatedly, doctors ambitioned to slow rotation in mandate to discourage the decease of head compartments -- and, accordingly, brain abuse -- reasoned along prolonged absence of oxygen. Chilled water carpets were placed over Thornton's body and pate, and remedial workers then used a machine to lower her body temperature for 48 hours.

"The patient received amazing care from the moment she seasoned problems at the Bridgestone Arena," said Dr. Jared McKinney, medical director of LifeFlight Event Medicine. "It namely merely through a coordinated crew exertion that her successful outcome was feasible."

After undergoing the 2 days of cooling therapy, Thornton's body temperature was slowly reinstated apt customary. She recovered feeling and neurologically continues to amend, along apt her doctors in Nashville.

On Friday afternoon, she was in settled condition, the Tennessee hospital said.

Her cardiologist, Dr. John McPherson, said that Thornton is undergoing a battery of tests to determine why she suffered the heart attack. He told CNN it appears she has an distended heart -- "a genetic condition that, unfortunately, has not advising omens and constantly results in an emergency location favor Thornton experienced."

Next week, she ambition have surgery to put an implantable cardioverter defibrillator in her breast. The apparatus sends electrical shocks namely ambition automatically punt in if her heart starts blowing irregularly and restore it to normal, in wishes of preventing dissimilar heart attack.

Leigh Sims, an crisis medical mechanic and Vanderbilt's manager of event medicine, said the defibrillator saved the woman's life.

"Without an AED, this patient would no have survived," Sims said. "It restored her pulse."

While she's appreciate, it's all a mist for Thornton. And she hasn't gotten over not being capable to watch Lady Gaga strut and sing above stage.

"I am so mad I missed the concert," she said, according to a expression loosened by the hospital.

Tugman said Friday that she's thankful to have her friend back -- including behind another horrify Thursday night, when "all of a sudden she stopped breathing, her eyes rolled back and all those machines started going off."

"They came in and shocked her, and she came right back," said Tugman.
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