An Australian woman (41) was ,on Monday,brought back to life,in Melbourne,after having been declared clinically dead for 42 minutes,following a cardiac arrest. Doctors at the Monash Medical Centre used a Lucas-2,the only compression device of its kind in the country-to circulate blood to Vanessa Tanasio's brain while attempting to unblock her main artery.
The device,as during cardiopulmonary resuscitation,physically compresses the chest and allows doctors to insert a stent into a blood vessel. Her heart was then shocked back into a normal rhythm. Tanasio, a mother of two,said she remembered," being on the couch,then on the floor,then arriving at the hospital and then two days go missing.I was dead for nearly an hour and only a week later,I feel great.It's surreal."
Source: The Hindu, dated 20/8/2013
The device,as during cardiopulmonary resuscitation,physically compresses the chest and allows doctors to insert a stent into a blood vessel. Her heart was then shocked back into a normal rhythm. Tanasio, a mother of two,said she remembered," being on the couch,then on the floor,then arriving at the hospital and then two days go missing.I was dead for nearly an hour and only a week later,I feel great.It's surreal."
Source: The Hindu, dated 20/8/2013
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