"Florida woman survives 45 minutes with no pulse" Associated Press November 10, 2014
BOCA RATON, Fla. — A Florida mother is tending to her new infant at home less than a month after surviving without a pulse for 45 minutes following complications from a routine caesarean section.
A spokesman for Boca Raton Regional Hospital said Sunday that medical workers spent three hours attempting to revive the woman after an amniotic fluid embolism.
Spokesman Thomas Chakurda said 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 Chakurda.
Doctors had called the family into the operating room and told them there was nothing more they could do for 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 the 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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