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  • Still smiling, man who had 28 heart attacks in one day

    11/26/2005 7:00:28 AM PST · by lunarbicep · 31 replies · 1,133+ views
    www.timesonline.co.uk ^ | November 26, 2005 | Nigel Hawkes
    AN ENGINEER has survived 28 cardiac arrests in a single afternoon, after he was resuscitated on each occasion using a defibrillator. Jeff Kerswell, 54, from Whipton, Devon, remembers little about it but his doctors and paramedics certainly will. “The consultant took pictures and X-rays of his chest and a picture of the two of us together to show there was a happy ending,” Heather Kerswell, the patient’s wife, said yesterday. “He couldn’t believe it. He wants to use [the picture] in his research and teaching.” Mr Kerswell, a shower engineer, was at work when he began having chest pains. “I...