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Omaha Steve

(99,635 posts) Mon Nov 10, 2014, 11:59 PM Nov 2014

Florida mom survives 45 minutes with no pulse

Source: AP-Excite

MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL

From all appearances, Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro was dead.

Her heart stopped beating for 45 minutes, and the doctors performing her cesarean section summoned her family to say goodbye.

What happened next still seems scarcely possible: The blip of her heart beat began to show on a monitor.

Graupera-Cassimiro was alive — and by all appearances, she survived the Sept. 23 experience without lasting damage.

FULL story at link.

Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20141110/us-no-pulse-survivor-de3612a2da.html

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Florida mom survives 45 minutes with no pulse (Original Post) Omaha Steve Nov 2014 OP

Zombie Momma!!!! nt valerief Nov 2014 #1

I believe in miracles. 840high Nov 2014 #2

McCain has done it for decades tomm2thumbs Nov 2014 #3

+1 C Moon Nov 2014 #5

A relative of mine was dead for several minuntes. She was revived at the hospital. C Moon Nov 2014 #4

These are the kind of miracles that money can't buy. Baitball Blogger Nov 2014 #6

a 3 hour resuscitation! Very good the Doctors kept on trying. Sunlei Nov 2014 #7

Science b!tch Deadbeat Republicans Nov 2014 #8

valerief

(53,235 posts)

1. Zombie Momma!!!! nt

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 12:01 AM

Nov 2014

840high

(17,196 posts)

2. I believe in miracles.

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Tue Nov 11, 2014, 12:26 AM

Nov 2014

tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)

3. McCain has done it for decades

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 01:28 AM

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C Moon

(12,213 posts)

5. +1

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Tue Nov 11, 2014, 01:51 AM

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C Moon

(12,213 posts)

4. A relative of mine was dead for several minuntes. She was revived at the hospital.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 01:51 AM

Nov 2014

Afterwards, she had temporary brain damage for over a year.
Her personality slowly came back, but it took quite some time. This was just as the doctors had said it would happen.

Baitball Blogger

(46,712 posts)

6. These are the kind of miracles that money can't buy.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 11:39 AM

Nov 2014

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

7. a 3 hour resuscitation! Very good the Doctors kept on trying.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 12:00 PM

Nov 2014

Graupera-Cassimiro suffered a rare, amniotic fluid embolism, which happens when fluid that surrounds the baby in the uterus enters the mother's bloodstream, clogging the heart and creating a vacuum that stops circulation.

Deadbeat Republicans

(111 posts)

8. Science b!tch

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Tue Nov 11, 2014, 12:27 PM

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