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2014-11-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Florida Woman Survives 45 Minutes With No Pulse

[HOSTED.AP.ORG] 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 front man for Boca Raton Regional Hospital told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named 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.

"She essentially spontaneously resuscitated when we were about to call the time of death," said Thomas Chakurda, the hospital front man.

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.

Medical workers used shock paddles and chest compressions throughout the emergency to try and restore heart beat and circulation, Chakurda said.

"Today she is the picture of health," he said.

Doctors had no immediate explanation for her survival, Chakurda said, calling her case one of "divine providence."

Posted by Fred 2014-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 That's nothing. There's guys in Chicago that haven't had a pulse for years, that vote and collect a government benefit check.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-11-10 08:10|| 2014-11-10 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 "...she survived without serious brain damage."

Another 5 minutes, and she could have been a Democrat.

Snark aside, this story serves to underscore that the human body is an amazing system.

Posted by Ulomons Peacock4299 2014-11-10 10:10|| 2014-11-10 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Another 5 minutes, and she could have been a Democrat.

Who sez there is no God ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-10 11:07|| 2014-11-10 11:07|| Front Page Top

#4 >amniotic fluid entered her bloodstream and heart and created a vacuum

this is obvious nonsense. I wonder what really happened?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-11-10 19:53|| 2014-11-10 19:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Probably they just didnt detect the heartbeat. Oxygen needs to be in there or the tissue dies pretty quick. Biomechanics is a strict and harsh god, so short of the real God intervening, the medicos simply missed something.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-10 22:10|| 2014-11-10 22:10|| Front Page Top

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