Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa was shifted
back to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Apollo Hospitals in Chennai
after she suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening. She is on
extracorporeal membrane heart assist device and is being treated by a
team of expert doctors and critical care specialists, said Apollo
Hospitals in a tweet late on Sunday night. The hospital also said that
Dr. Richard Beale, was consulted again and he concurred with the line of
treatment.
Initial reports suggested that the Chief Minister was put on life
support system though hospital sources maintained that her condition was
“stable”. A late evening press released issued by Apollo Hospitals COO
Subbiah Viswanathan said, the Chief Minister “suffered a cardiac arrest
this evening. She is being treated and monitored by a team of experts
including cardiologists, pulmonologist and the critical care
specialists.”
Maharashtra Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao, who is holding additional charge of Tamil Nadu, arrived at the hospital.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Tamil Nadu Governor Ch. Vidyasagar
Rao on Sunday evening and enquired about health of Ms. Jayalalithaa. As
of 11 pm, no request by Tamil Nadu to send Central forces, said a senior
MHA official to The Hindu. Director General of CRPF K.Durga Prasad said
that he has not received any instructions yet from the Home Ministry to
rush to Chennai.
Following news of the Chief Minister's ill health, violence broke out at
the hospital entrance on Sunday night. Housing Minister Udumalai
Radhakrishnan, PWD Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, Electricity
Minister P. Thangamani, Transport Minister M.R. Vijaya Baskar were among
those present at the hospital.
Ms Jayalalithaa, who was admitted to the Apollo Hospitals on the night
of September 22, with “low grade fever and dehydration”, was
subsequently under intensive treatment from specialists and moved to a
private ward only on November 19.
Several State Ministers, the Chief Secretary and top bureaucrats rushed
to the hospital while Tamil Nadu Director-General of Police T.K.
Rajendran who was in Madurai for a review meeting air-dashed to Chennai,
advancing his scheduled trip. An emergency meeting was called at the
police headquarters late on Sunday.
Police officers mobilised
The entire police strength, including companies of the Armed Reserve and
Tamil Nadu Special Police, was being mobilised as a precautionary
measure.
The Director General of Police has ordered the mobilisation of all
officers in the rank of Superintendent of Police as well as police
personnel of other ranks (Enforcement, CB CID, Economic Offences Wing,
Crime Wing). They have been asked to report to their respective District
SPs/ Commissioner of Police at 7 am on Monday. They have been ordered
to report in full uniform with their vehicles for law and order
bandobast duty until further orders.
Though no formal request was made yet, companies of the Central Reserve
Police Force in Tamil Nadu and neighbouring States were put on alert,
the sources said.
London doctor consulted
Earlier following her hospitalisation, besides doctors at the Apollo
Hospital, Dr Richard John Beale, expert in lung injuries and intensive
care management, United Kingdom and specialists from the All India
Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, were part of the
treatment protocol.
Earlier this evening an AIIMS expert team had confirmed that the Chief
Minister had recovered after over two months of hospitalisation, AIADMK
said.
What is ECMO?
● ECMO stands for Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation
● ECMO is used as a life support system in some patients who suffer a
cardiac arrest — it is used as a rescue therapy when the patient is
found to be unresponsive to conventional CPR measures
● An ECMO machine works by draining the blood from a vein, adding oxygen
and removing the carbon dioxide. It also warms the blood and then
returns it to the artery and in some cases pumps the blood through the
body. This allows the blood to bypass the heart and lungs.
● Specifically, ECMO is resorted to in situations where it can be
rapidly implemented and where the attending medical personnel believe
that the suspected cause of the cardiac arrest is potentially reversible
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