Woman survives 45 minutes without heartbeat after amniotic embolism after birth

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without a pulse

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They watched a heart monitor, preparing to record a time of death

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This makes no sense.

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experience with the other side.

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Neither does this.

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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."

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Is that supposed to prove something?

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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.

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Not if there was adequate chest compressions.

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.

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!"

Yet more encounters with the spirit realm.

Sounds like an episode of Grey's Anatomy

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