Woman who died and came back to life last month gives birth to healthy baby girl in Omaha

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Anai Cardenas holds her newborn daughter Analy at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Wednesday. Analy Felipe Cardenas was born Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 11:13 a.m., weighing 7 pounds, 11 ounces.


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Posted: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 12:21 pm
Staff reports

A woman who nearly died last month and was the second pregnant patient in the country to receive a life-saving medical device gave birth Tuesday in Omaha.

Seven weeks before her due date, on Jan. 9, the young woman felt chest pain, dizziness and a rapid heart rate — and then collapsed on the bathroom floor. Her family frantically called 911. Six minutes later, paramedic Dylan LaMontia knelt over her and reported: “No pulse!”

Anai "Anna" Cardenas was 32 weeks pregnant. Paramedics from Fremont revived the expecting mother, and a helicopter then transported her from the Fremont Area Medical Center to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

There, she became only the second pregnant patient in the U.S. to receive a new kind of defibrillator called the S-ICD.

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Original story: Kelly: 'She was dead, and they brought her back' — paramedics revived pregnant woman after she 'coded': http://www.livewellnebraska.com/health/kelly-she-was-dead-and-they-brought-her-back-paramedics/article_90d8b0bf-3cb4-543f-89d0-c9dcb7f591a9.html