his pulse returned. He was then taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and put in an induced coma for three days. When he awoke, he had a cardioverter-defibrillator surgically implanted in his chest. He has since made full recovery. Eastwood told The Georgia Straight that by the time he returned to filming at Vancouver General Hospital, word of his incident had spread among the staff. "They're the ones who keep underscoring how incredibly rare it is for somebody who has that kind of spontaneous cardiac arrest to, first of all, survive, and even those who survive, there are a small percentage who do not have brain damage. Less than 10 per cent survive in the first place, and a fraction of those are not permanently damaged." "This show changed my life," Eastwood says. References External links Official Site: Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH at Knowledge Network 2014 Canadian television series debuts 2010s Canadian television miniseries 2010s Canadian documentary television series English-language television shows 2010s Canadian medical television series Television shows filmed in Vancouver Knowledge Network original programming