Vanderbilt Health teams credited with saving MTSU professor suffering heart attack at Nashville soccer game
Leigh Anne Clark had a stent put in and was back teaching at MTSU a week later.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Middle Tennessee State University professor is thanking Vanderbilt Health staff at GEODIS Park for their quick response after she had a heart attack at a Nashville SC game last month.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center said Leigh Anne Clark and her husband were celebrating their anniversary at a Nashville SC game when she started to feel nauseous and had a headache.
The couple went up to the concourse, and that is when Clark felt dizzy and went down on the ground.
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Members of stadium security immediately rushed in and called the Vanderbilt LifeFlight Event Medicine team on site.
Clark was then taken to the hospital where she was told she had a heart attack called a STEMI (ST elevation myocardial infarction), which Vanderbilt Health said is a severe cardiac event.
“In her case, the distal right coronary artery (RCA) that supplies blood to the bottom of the heart was 100% blocked. Additionally, her left anterior descending artery that supplies blood to the front of the heart was 70% blocked,” Vanderbilt said.
Clark had a stent put in and was back teaching at MTSU a week later. She thanks Vanderbilt for their quick actions and care she received.
“They not only saved my life, but their excellence saved the quality of my life,” Clark said. “For that, I can continue to be a wife, mother, daughter, sister and teacher.”
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