​Doctor in Limca Book for fastest heart attack care

MUMBAI: A city doctor has entered the Limca Book of Records for stopping a heart attack and performing an angioplasty in just 16 minutes against the international standard of 90 minutes.
Dr Sanjay Rajdev, consultant cardiologist at SevenHills Hospital, said, “A 46-year-old executive of a multinational IT firm came to us on December 10, 2011, and we started conducting ECG.” The team found his heart rhythm becoming abnormal, and it took just 16 minutes to give him primary coronary intervention or balloon angioplasty upon entering the hospital.Dr Rajdev, along with four others, performed the angioplasty and put two stents. “The angioplasty alone took 16 minutes, which is the international metric. If you add the stenting procedure, we took a total of 20 minutes.”