Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals granted a new lease of life to a 55-year-old accountant whose heart had ruptured inside his body a fatal complication that rarely occurs only in 1-2% of the patients of a cardiac arrest. When Vinod Kumar fainted in his office on Christmas he was rushed to Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals. The doctors in the Emergency resuscitated Vinod and immediately put him on ventilatory support. His family informed doctors that he had been feeling weak and feverish for a couple of days. During the operation it was found that Vinod s heart had sustained a wound causing blood loss