The story has been told of a woman who was miraculously brought back to life after her heart stopped beating for 6 hours.
A British woman was revived after her heart stopped for more than six
hours – then made a miraculous recovery in what doctors have called an “exceptional case on a global scale”.
Audrey Mash, 34, became separated from her husband Rohan Schoeman when
they were caught in a snowstorm in northern Spain’s Pyrenees mountains.
The Barcelona-based English teacher suffered severe hypothermia, lost
consciousness and went into cardiac arrest – meaning her heart had
stopped beating and she was technically dead.
More than six hours later she was revived at Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron Hospital.
Dr Eduard Argudo told a press conference today: “This is an exceptional case on a global scale.
“It is the longest cardiac arrest ever recorded in Spain.”
Audrey, who cheated death while walking in Vall de Núria near Girona on November 3, has since made a near-full recovery.
She said of her ordeal: “I can’t remember anything about that weekend.”
She added in quotes published by Catalan media: “I didn’t realise my life was in danger until I was in hospital.”
NO VITAL SIGNS
Audrey was airlifted off the mountain after firefighters used phone
calls and photos sent to friends to trace the area where she got lost
around 3.40pm.
She had no vital signs when she reached hospital at 5.44pm, her heart
had no electrical activity and her kidneys and lungs were not working.
However doctors believed she had a chance if they treated her hypothermia.
A special machine that performs the functions of the heart and lungs
kept oxygen flowing in her arteries while warming her blood to raise her
temperature from 18C to 30C.
Normal body temperature is 37C.
Once she had warmed up, medics tries to restart her heart with a defibrillator but it did not work.
Then her heart started beating on its own at 9.46pm.
Audrey spent 11 days in hospital.
Remarkably she was left with no brain damage despite the length of her
cardiac arrest, only some problems thought to relate to her hands from
the hypothermia.
Dr Argudo said: “There are practically no cases of people who have been revived after their heart has stopped for so long.”
Source: The Sun UK
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This story reminded me of my father. He was born in 1898 and all his life was labelled as ‘delicate’. He was one of 16 children of a very poor family. In 1914 he joined the Royal Navy at the outbreak of WW1. In 1918 he became a victim of Spanish ‘flu and was pronounced dead in Haslar hospital (the naval hospital). A telegram was sent to his mother in Wales, and his elder brother travelled by train to Portsmouth to arrange his funeral. However, just before he arrived, my father ‘came to’ when on the slab in the hospital mortuary. He used to boast that he was the only person in the mortuary who had been carried in there, but walked out on his own two feet!”
I brought my father and mother to live with me in the 1980’s because they were not coping in their council flat. I nursed them both until 1992 when they both died at my home within one month of each other. My father went first in his 94th year. His GP used to laughingly call him ‘LAZARUS’.