From CentraCare
Sudden hiccups that wouldn’t go away were Cindy Miessen’s sign that something wasn’t right. Little did the Annandale resident know it was the beginning of cardiac arrest and she’d soon benefit from new Impella technology that would help save her life.
“You know how you hold your breath to get your hiccups to stop,” Cindy asked. “I was doing that kind of stuff, and it just wasn’t working.”
It was Sunday night on Oct. 16, 2022, when the 65-year-old grandmother of four had been experiencing persistent hiccups for roughly 10 minutes.
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