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Woman survives 45 minutes without heartbeat after amniotic embolism after birth
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:27 pm
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Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro had gone 45 minutes without a pulse when doctors called her family into the operating room and told them there was nothing more they could do. A team of more than a dozen doctors and nurses had been working desperately to revive her. But now they'd lost hope that the 40-year-old Deerfield Beach woman, whose heart had given out without warning after a routine C-section at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, was going to make it. Devastated, Graupera-Cassimiro's husband, mother and sister said goodbye to her just hours after they'd welcomed a healthy baby girl. The medical team stopped all lifesaving procedures. They watched a heart monitor, preparing to record a time of death. And then the impossible happened: A blip of a heartbeat showed up. Then another, and another. Within a few hours, Graupera-Cassimiro, a human resources manager and now a mother of two, was tugging at the breathing tube on her face and scribbling notes to family.
Amazing. Article also goes to describe her experience with the other side. What says the OT?
LINK
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:28 pm to NYNolaguy1
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without a pulse
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They watched a heart monitor, preparing to record a time of death
This makes no sense.
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experience with the other side.
Neither does this.
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:31 pm to NYNolaguy1
I'm not going to pay to read the article, so how about you copy and paste it and post it here?
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:31 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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Neither does this.
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In the next few hours, Graupera-Cassimiro said, she remembered something she thought had been a dream: what she described as an encounter with the spirit of her late father, who told her it wasn't her time. It dawned on her that it may not have been a dream. When Dr. Shawn Iverson, a resident from Florida Atlantic University, checked in on her the next morning, she gestured upward and nodded. And when Fleischer came to take off the breathing tube, Graupera-Cassimiro told him: "You don't have to be afraid of dying."
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:33 pm to NYNolaguy1
So over under on the amount of serious brain damage due to not having a heart beat for 45 minutes? I feel like she would be a potato after that long.
This post was edited on 11/10/14 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:33 pm to NYNolaguy1
Is that supposed to prove something?
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:40 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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Is that supposed to prove something?
I feel like you're having a little difficulty understanding what happened. Maybe I should link another article to help you out.
CBS news
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:42 pm to Green Chili Tiger
From the CBS Article:
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BOCA RATON, Fla. - A Florida mother is home and tending to her new infant less than a month after surviving without a pulse for 45 minutes following complications from a routine cesarean section. A spokesman for Boca Raton Regional Hospital told The Associated Press on Sunday that a team of medical workers spent three hours attempting to revive the woman after a rare amniotic fluid embolism. Spokesman Thomas Chakurda says the doctors were preparing to pronounce her death when a blip on a monitor indicated a heartbeat. Despite going 45 minutes without a pulse, she suffered no brain damage during the Sept. 23 ordeal. "We had called a code that lasted for three hours. She essentially spontaneously resuscitated when we were about to call the time of death," said Thomas Chakurda, the hospital spokesman. Doctors had called the family into the operating room and told them there was nothing more they could do for 40-year-old Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro. Graupera-Cassimiro gave birth to a healthy daughter before amniotic fluid entered her bloodstream and heart and created a vacuum, stopping circulation. Doctors say condition is often fatal. Chakurda said the woman's survival is a story of two miracles - her resuscitation and the fact that she survived without serious brain damage.
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:42 pm to NYNolaguy1
no heartbeat for 45 minutes means no blood to the brain for 45 minutes which is a serious problem.....
this article seems a little fishy
this article seems a little fishy
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:50 pm to Ryan3232
Not if there was adequate chest compressions.
Posted on 11/10/14 at 1:54 pm to Ryan3232
The doctors and nurses were actively attempting to resuscitate her for 40 minutes. That means they were performing chest compressions, the point of which is to perfuse tissues until the heart starts beating again. It is very rare for someone to survive after that long, but she didn't go 45 minutes without any blood to the brain.
Posted on 11/10/14 at 2:08 pm to medtiger
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The doctors and nurses were actively attempting to resuscitate her for 40 minutes. That means they were performing chest compressions, the point of which is to perfuse tissues until the heart starts beating again. It is very rare for someone to survive after that long, but she didn't go 45 minutes without any blood to the brain.
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medtiger
Medical boom.
Posted on 11/10/14 at 2:15 pm to medtiger
Yes. The media is sensationalizing this (shocker) into making it seem she layed on the table untouched for 45 minutes and then woke up. The fact of the matter is that she didn't have spontaneous heartbeats for 45 minutes. But they had her on oxygen and were performing compressions manually or mechanically. In essence, they kept her alive for that time period. It is still amazing that she resumed cardiac activity after that amount of time but it just doesn't sound as sexy as "OMG! She was dead and now she is back!"
Posted on 11/10/14 at 3:02 pm to jbgleason
It's a miracle!
Don't stop believing!
Don't stop believing!
Posted on 11/10/14 at 3:07 pm to NYNolaguy1
Yet more encounters with the spirit realm.
Posted on 11/10/14 at 3:08 pm to NYNolaguy1
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I feel like you're having a little difficulty understanding what happened.
Not at all. It was highly unusual, but not necessarily miraculous.
Posted on 11/10/14 at 3:10 pm to Akit1
Sounds like an episode of Grey's Anatomy
Posted on 11/10/14 at 3:12 pm to beejon
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Yet more encounters with the spirit realm.
Who knows? You're Sword of Righteousness may have slain the demon that would have taken this woman's life.
Posted on 11/10/14 at 3:13 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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This post was edited on 10/3/20 at 12:05 am
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