A man has survived against the odds after a heart attack which caused his heart to stop beating for 18 minutes.
Doctors say people can normally survive for up to four minutes after they stop breathing. They are likely to die or suffer serious brain damage after that.
But Rob Waggett, 31, of Newport took a breath after paramedics used a defibrillator seven times to shock him.
Doctors told his wife he survived because his heart kept on quivering four times longer than normal. Read More…
