Receiving CPR, especially for 9 minutes, is what breaks your ribs. The only thing it has to do with a heart attack is if a heart attack results in you needing CPR.
Your grandfather's heart was probably restarted or shocked back into a correct rhythm with a defibrillator, which does not injure the ribs or sternum. If a person requires extensive manual CPR in order to restart the heart or keep it beating until medical help arrives, there WILL be broken/cracked ribs. Otherwise the CPR is not being done correctly and will not work.
With at least a half a dozen broken ribs and a possible free floating sternum…
"Free-floating sternum?"
Someone's never seen the ligaments securing the sternum in the chest
Floating rib syndrome is horrible. Personal experience.
Rib yes
Sternum no
My grandfather survived a heart attack at 90 and didn't have any broken ribs.
Receiving CPR, especially for 9 minutes, is what breaks your ribs. The only thing it has to do with a heart attack is if a heart attack results in you needing CPR.
Or open heart surgery
And then holding your hands up to make a heart. Iron Ribs Hamlin
Your grandfather's heart was probably restarted or shocked back into a correct rhythm with a defibrillator, which does not injure the ribs or sternum. If a person requires extensive manual CPR in order to restart the heart or keep it beating until medical help arrives, there WILL be broken/cracked ribs. Otherwise the CPR is not being done correctly and will not work.