DEAD FOR 17 MINUTES
A MEDICAL MIRACLE
OPERATION ON WOMAN
(Received March 2, 1 p.m.)
CAPE TOWN, March 1. A woman who is regarded as a medical miracle is now an inmate of a hospital after having been dead for seventeen minutes.
After the anaesthetist started work the patient stopped breathing. The surgeon, through an abdominal incision, compressed the heart rhythmically for five minutes without response. He then injected into the heart ten minims of adrenalin, and again compressed the heart, which remained inert. While he was sewing up the skin of the incision a suggestion of a groan was heard, followed by unaccountably rapid but feeble beats of the pulse. The patient's arm was subsequently amputated, and she is progressing favourably. Asked her experience while life was absent, the patient stated that she does not.know that anything happened.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 10
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139DEAD FOR 17 MINUTES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 10
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