Nine months after collapsing at a concert, Nick Miller met with MDA medic Inbar Ozan who saved his life and reunited with Pablo Rosenberg on stage at Rambam

Nine months after collapsing on the "Zappa Haifa" stage, Nick Miller, guitarist for "Stella Maris" and one of the founders of the band, met last Tuesday with an emergency medicine medic at MDA Inbar Ozan, who saved his life when his heart stopped beating during the performance by advanced resuscitation operations With the help of the defibrillator that is always in his car.

Miller, who after the beating was transferred to Rambam Hospital for further treatment, was hospitalized for several weeks in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Heart Surgery Department, at the end of which he recovered and was released home feeling well.

Yesterday, Wednesday 29/1/20, he also appeared on the Spencer Hall stage as part of Rambam's annual heart surgery conference "Past, Present and Future", the 12th in number, and played the song "Candle on the window" which he composed in front of the hospital staff , including hospital medical and nursing teams and MDA representatives who joined together to save his life.

Ozan and Miller couldn't hide their excitement when they met since that performance, which started with Miller playing on stage, and was abruptly cut short when his heart stopped beating during a song. Ozan, a resident of Shemshit and an emergency medicine medic in Magan David Adom, who is a fan of the band and came to the concert with his girlfriend, immediately jumped to the stage, performed advanced CPR on Miller with the help of the defibrillator that is always in his car, and saved his life. Within a few minutes, an MDA intensive care vehicle also arrived at the scene with paramedic Muhammad Algadir and senior medic Yaniv Hoiger, who continued the medical treatment, sedated and ventilated him and immediately evacuated him directly to the catheterization room at the hospital.

ear: Thanks to Miller, I got to do something very significant, so happy to see him on his feet. I'll never forget the quick transition from having fun at the show, to within seconds I started CPR on stage, and sent my partner running to get the defibrillator from my car. Meeting Miller now, when he's in good shape, takes me back to the moment when his pulse returned to beating and he came back to life. It is so exciting and satisfying.

Miller: I know that a situation like the one I was in usually doesn't work out. I understand today that if it weren't for the quick medical response I received and the electric shocks from the defibrillator, I probably wouldn't have survived. I am grateful to the MDA team, and especially to Amber who fought for my life and saved me. I am sure that I will return to play, and I am waiting to meet him again at a concert, but this time to perform until the end.
 

Miller, as mentioned yesterday, participated in the Rambam conference and went on stage in front of a hall full of doctors and nurses and completed the same performance as a tribute to the medical teams that saved his life in the hospital. Miller was joined by his partner in the legendary band, vocalist Pablo Rosenberg who thanked the audience: "You gave me back Nick." The duo's short performance received a standing ovation in the conference hall, which is used to containing somewhat more formal content, and the participants of the event joined the two in singing and dancing.

Miller: I want to thank everyone. Thanks to you I'm alive."

Prof. Gil Bolotin, director of the heart surgery department at Rambam, where guitarist "Stella Maris" was treated after he collapsed: Miller is a great example of successful therapy. In recent years, we see more and more patients coming to Rambam, when the trend of increasing the number of surgeries and types of treatments is clear.

Rambam says that there was a 35% increase in the number of heart surgeries at the Rambam Medical College between 2009 and 2019, according to data collected in the heart surgery department at the medical center and presented at the conference. It also appears that between 2018 and 2019 there was an increase of approximately 14% in the number of surgeries performed at the hospital. In addition, the data indicates that in the past year there was an increase in the number of patients referred to Rambam from other hospitals. It was also reported that during 2019, Rambam performed 727 heart surgeries, with most of the operations (about 420) performed on patients aged 50-75. It should be noted that Rambam's heart surgery department is the largest in the north and the third largest in the scope of surgeries in Israel.

The annual conference of the heart surgery department at Rambam was held this year under the title "Making history in the treatment of heart patients". As part of the conference, the various lecturers reviewed the processes and transformations that have taken place in Israel and the world in the field of heart surgery, discussed various therapeutic issues and gave a glimpse into the future that awaits doctors and patients in all matters related for surgical operations, drugs and medical technologies.

Hundreds of cardiologists and family doctors from all over the country took part in the conference, including some of the most prominent names in the field. The lecturers of the conference are senior doctors, heads of departments and systems from the various hospitals in Israel, where the key lecturer was Dr. Danny Devir, Director of IVR, Heart Institute at the UW Medical Center in Seattle, USA. Dr. Dvir is considered a world-renowned expert and his lecture dealt with the discussion between different types of treatment and the use of technologies in heart surgery.

Another lecturer who was included in the conference events and attracted a lot of attention is the podcaster Ran Levy, the successful podcast presenter in Israel. Levy, an entrepreneur, engineer, author and fascinating lecturer, will review the processes of the artificial intelligence revolution in medicine and transportation.

The conference also included a panel of experts who will discuss the question: what can be learned from history for the benefit of the patients' future, in which senior cardiologists from various hospitals in the north and center are expected to take part. The panel was moderated by Prof. Rafi Biar, former director of Rambam and an interventional cardiologist by training.