"97 Seconds" is the third episode of the fourth season of House and the seventy-third episode overall. It aired on October 9, 2007.The primary patient in the episode is a man with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) who develops symptoms that could be related to his SMA or something else.However, the episode title is linked to a different patient in this episode who was clinically dead for 97 seconds after a car accident.