Fire Breaks Out Inside Man’s Chest During Heart Surgery, Stunned Doctors Quickly Extinguish It

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6/3/2019Updated: 6/3/2019

In the rarest complication, a flash fire broke out inside the exposed chest cavity of a 60-year-old man who was undergoing emergency heart surgery in Australia.

The incident, which happened in August 2018, was presented over the weekend at the Euroanaesthesia Congress in Vienna, reported the EurekAlert.

Venus Upadhayaya

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