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.
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.