Doctors 'Freeze' Baby In Emergency Procedure: UK Physicians Forced To 'Freeze' Child After Shocking His Heart Fails [VIDEO]

Doctors in London were forced to 'freeze' a baby in order to slow down his heartbeat, after repeated attempts to shock the child's heart failed.

Edward Ives was born with the heart condition supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), and given a five percent chance of survival, according to ABC News.com.

Doctors at University College London Hospital were forced to freeze the baby after repeated attempts to slow the child's pulse through medication and by repeatedly shocking his heart, failed to work.

SVT results in a rapid irregular heartbeat that is caused by abnormal electrical impulses. When the heart beats at such a fast pace, it can't properly absorb and distribute blood to vital organs.

When the baby's mother Claire Ives, who works as a nurse in London, was seven-months pregnant, she listened to her unborn son's heartbeat, and was confused by what she heard.

"I thought I wasn't listening right or something," Ives told ABCNews.com. "I didn't believe his [heart] rate could be that fast."

The baby's heart rate was 300 beats per minute, nearly twice the normal 160 BPMs.

When the child was delivered five weeks early by emergency cesarean at the University College London Hospital, Ives was not optimistic about her baby's chances of surviving.

"I just thought he was going to die," she said.

A few hours after baby Edward was born, his heartbeat started to soar. Medical staff tried medication and shocking his heart, but when nothing worked doctors realized they had to 'freeze' the baby.

"We'd gone through all the usual maneuvers that usually work in babies, giving drugs...trying to shock the heart, the baby and get [a healthy heart rate back]," said Dr. Nicola Robertson, of the neonatal unit at University College London Hospital.

Over the course of several hours, doctor's lowered the boy's temperature to 91 degrees using a cold gel blanket to 'freeze' baby Edward.

The next day, Edward's heartbeat started racing again when doctors warmed him up, so they had to 'freeze' the baby again.

"That was one of the worst nights," Ives said. "I asked one of the nurses if he was going to die and she said he might."

Yet after additional medication and a slower warming process, raising the baby's temperature a half a degree per hour for 12 hours, the child's heart rate remained steady upon being thawed out.

"It was really strange highs and lows because he was doing extremely poorly," said Ives. "But, oh, thank God! It worked."

Now a healthy six-month-old, Edward is not likely to need additional hospital time for his SVT, yet he is being closely monitored to make sure his irregular heartbeat doesn't return.

"It's made me appreciate all the small things about my children," said Ives. "It's the best thing ever to bring him home."

Edward Ives isn't the first baby doctor's had to 'freeze.' Check out the video below for the story of another story of a frozen child in the UK: