Woman ‘Dead’ for 42 Minutes Brought Back to Life
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Newser | August 20, 2013 at 10:40 AM |
By
Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff
Thanks to high-tech CPR machine
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An Australian woman was brought back to life after being clinically dead for 42 minutes, the Herald Sun reports. Vanessa Tanasio, a 41-year-old mother of two, collapsed while getting her kids ready for school a week ago. She’d had a heart attack, and was declared clinically dead soon after she was brought to the hospital, the Brisbane Times reports.
But
the cardiology team was able to save her using a high-tech new machine
that gave her CPR for 30 minutes, keeping her blood flowing to her brain
and other organs while doctors unblocked
an artery. Her heart was then successfully shocked into beating again.
Without
the $15,000, battery-powered LUCAS 2 or “thumper,” her doctors would
have had to do CPR manually while taking short breaks to perform the
coronary angiogram and angioplasty.
(The machine ran through two full batteries on Tanasio.) “It’s truly a
miracle that after 40 minutes of reduced circulation that she is alive
and well and completely cognizant,” says the hospital director. “I would
be dead if it wasn’t for the thumper machine,”
Tanasio says. She was set to be released yesterday, and adds that she’s
given up smoking.
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