Saturday, most of us football fans had our eyes glued to our TV watching that pulsating FA Cup tie at White Hart Lane, between Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton Wanderers, suddenly Fabrice Muamba, a Bolton player suffers cardiac arrest and collapses. That turns out to be the highlight of the game, we all watched as medics got into a frenzy to revive him.
The player’s has since recovered, but his heart actually stopped working for 78 minutes. And when he finally wakes up his first question “Is did we win?”
Read below the a Dr Andrew Deaner, the cardiologist and Tottenham Hotspur supporter who leapt from his seat in the crowd and rushed on to the pitch to help Fabrice Muamba after the Bolton midfielder suffered a cardiac arrest during an FA Cup tie at White Hart Lane on Saturday, has described the player’s recovery as “miraculous”
Dr Andrew Deaner described Muamba’s recovery as “miraculous” after he was effectively brought back from the dead after the player’s heart had stopped for over an hour.
“If you’re going to use the term miraculous, I guess it could be used here,” said Dr Deaner.
Muamba, 23, remains in intensive care at the London Chest Hospital where he had been in a critical state since Saturday evening. However, early signs of a recovery continue and the footballer on Monday night told Bolton’s team doctor Jonathan Tobin he was “fine”.
Dr Jonathan Tobin, who visited Muamba on Monday evening, said: “I’m glad to say that the early signs of recovery have continued. I went to see Fabrice last night. I went in and he said ‘Hi, doc.’
“I asked him how he was and he said ‘Fine’.”