Post by Graveyardbride on Nov 18, 2014 13:07:55 GMT -5
Florida Woman Miraculously Returns from the Dead
BOCA RATON, Fla. – What was supposed to be a routine procedure at a Florida hospital turned into a woman’s fight for her life, after going without a pulse for 45 minutes, according to the Sun Sentinel. On September 23, Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro (above) “died” when her heart stopped and doctors exhausted efforts to revive her. However, after family members said their goodbyes, the woman suddenly woke up, as if she were resurrected from the dead. Doctors and scientists are calling it a modern-day medical miracle.
Physicians who witnessed the woman’s return from a “declared dead” state are at a loss as to how to explain why Graupera-Cassimiro suddenly started breathing again, after her vital signs were absent for almost an hour and her heart monitor showed a flat-line state.
Apparently, the woman was at the Boca Raton Regional Hospital to deliver her daughter via cesarean section when things went terribly wrong. In the recovery room, the woman was chatting along and without warning, became unconscious. Later, doctors diagnosed a rare complication called amniotic fluid embolism. Amniotic fluid is the fluid that protects the growing baby inside the womb. However, it becomes a life-threatening condition when it enters the mother’s blood stream and envelopes the heart. In a flash, hospital personnel from many departments arrived and began emergency CPR to save the woman’s life. This went on for almost three hours and, at some point, the woman’s heart stopped beating for almost an hour. Staff took turns pumping Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro’s chest and used defibrillators and shock paddles, to no avail. After all signs pointed to death, doctors made the decision to pronounce the woman dead. According to anesthesiologist Anthony Salvadore, M.D., there was nothing else that could be done. “Once we say that’s it, that’s it,” he said.
Family members were called into the room, then left and gathered to pray. That’s when the miracle happened. At the precise moment doctors were about to make the official announcement of death, the heart monitor machine registered an audible and visible “blip” followed by a succession of beats, indicating life. The woman appeared to have been resurrected from the dead. A nurse ran out and informed family of the developments.
Thomas Chakurda, a hospital spokesperson weighed in on the woman’s return from a seemingly dead state: “She essentially spontaneously resuscitated when we were about to call the time of death.”
And just one day later, doctors took Graupera-Cassimiro off life-support and noticed other anomalies: The resurrected woman showed absolutely no signs of typical bruising from the shock devices attached to her chest, no signs of reduced brain activity and no evidence of motor impairment. After one minute without oxygen, brain cells begin to die, but survival is possible. After three minutes, severe brain damage is likely. After the 10-minute mark, most brain cells are dead and the patient is unlikely to recover. And after 15 minutes, survival is virtually impossible.
However, just a day without a pulse and circulating oxygen in her body, the Florida woman was not only resuscitated and “brought back from the dead,” she was up and talking to family and friends. Chakurda describes her as “the picture of health.” Now, Graupera-Cassimiro is forever grateful for the angels at the hospital who saved her life. “Had you guys maybe stopped before the 45 minutes of compressions – I mean, I don’t know. All I know is that I’m grateful to be here. I don’t know why I was given this opportunity, but I’m very grateful for it.”
Dr. Anthony Dardano, president of the hospital’s medical staff in Boca Raton, said the woman’s case is among the most rare things he’s ever witnessed. “There’s very few things in medicine that I’ve seen, working in the trauma center myself and doing all the things that I do, that really were either unexplainable or miraculous. And when I heard this story, that was the first thing that came to my mind.”
After her near-death experience, Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro recalls a dream that she had about her late father who told her she was not ready to die. All things considered, the woman doesn’t believe it was a “dream” at all.
Source: The Inquisitr, November 10, 2014.
