"DEAD" HEART BEAT FOR 26 HOURS
The heart' of a young womaii patient in Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga, Tennessee, continued to beat "evenly and slowly" for .26 hours after she had "ceased to breathe." Dr. A. F.. Branton, superintendent of the hospital, sai.d it was "a very unusual-case,'b which h'e thought was withqut.};. medical records. ' ■ '■' ' b -W \ The young woman, who und'erwent a brain operation, apparently ceased to breathe at 4 p.m. Attending physicians said her heart coniinued to beat until 10.10 p.m. thc next day, when it finally ceased. They said there must have been some breathing, sufficient to supply enough oxygen to maintain her fcody in an existing condition, but the breathing was not detectable. Dr. Branton said it was possible that a brain tumor depressed the respiratory centre, slowing breathing to imperceptibilit-y. , Time of death was set at the moment the heart-beats ceased.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 June 1946, Page 8
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145"DEAD" HEART BEAT FOR 26 HOURS Chronicle (Levin), 24 June 1946, Page 8
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