Health & Fitness
Fair Haven Nurse Survives Near-Fatal Heart Crisis
A sleepless night turned into a fight for her life. See how an army of specialists saved this 59-year-old nurse. Read her amazing story!
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For 36 years, Jackie Ffrench of Fair Haven, New Jersey, was the calm in every storm as an experienced nurse. But nothing could have prepared the 59-year-old for the terrifying moment she became the patient. After a sleepless night with a pounding chest, Jackie's condition rapidly deteriorated into severe, life-threatening heart failure.
Within hours, she was fighting for her life.
Jackie coded multiple times in the ambulance and woke up 10 days later in a hospital bed. But she didn't fight alone. An army of collaborative specialists across Hackensack Meridian Riverview Medical Center and Jersey Shore University Medical Center worked together seamlessly to save her. Utilizing life-saving ECMO and Impella devices, the multidisciplinary team was able to stabilize her sudden, severe myocarditis.
How did this dedicated nurse survive multiple emergency surgeries, a mild stroke, and a second cardiac event to finally get her life back?
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