At just three-weeks-old Samuel Hall’s tiny heart suddenly failed. Fortunately the intuition of his mum, Suzanne Hall, and the work of Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) medical staff, including cardiac surgeon Igor Konstantinov, meant that Samuel had a speedy recovery.

The little boy was rushed to RCH Emergency after his mum Suzanne noticed symptoms including a change in his breathing. Just hours later he suffered a cardiac arrest and was in the RCH Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), he was then placed on a bypass machine. The following day Samuel went into surgery to repair what doctors found to be severe aortic stenosis, a condition where the heart’s Aortic Valve is thickened and narrowed, restricting flow to the aorta.

Samuel will need surgery later in life but the three-month-old is now a happy and bubbly little boy.

Click below to watch the Seven News story on Samuel.