A woman who died of a heart attack woke up before an autopsy. This is a unique case in medical practice that has little to do with common clinical deaths
The miraculous resurrection took place in front of the doctors when the saddened relatives of the deceased patient left the hospital to order a funeral.
- She's alive! Alive! - said the shocked nurse on the mobile phone.
In fact, there was something to come to bewilderment. Devices for several hours recorded the complete absence of heart and brain activity in 59-year-old American Velma Thomas. Only an artificial lung ventilation unit worked, which pumped air into a dead body. And doctors, with the consent of relatives, turned it off.
“Mom was numb, her skin became waxy and hard, her fingers curled up,” says her son, 36-year-old Tim Thomas. - I realized that this is the end …
And the doctors had no doubts. After seeing off the relatives, they began to prepare the body for an autopsy and the possible removal of organs suitable for transplantation. It was then that Velma came to life. She opened her eyes, looked around and asked: "Where is my son?" At this time, called by the nurse, he was already rushing back to the hospital.
But the first to come running to the resurrected body was the local resuscitator Kevin Eggleston, who spent 17 hours working with Velma. Twice started her stopped heart. And he gave up only on the third unsuccessful attempt. In a word, I did not expect to see the patient alive a few hours after death.
- This is a real miracle, - says the doctor, - I'm in shock. She's definitely dead.
Velma is now on the mend. Gets out of bed, eats. And she says that God returned her from the other world, who, perhaps, had some other plans for her. But how there, in the next world, alas, the woman does not remember.
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If we try to dissociate ourselves from mysticism and look for a reasonable explanation for the miracle, then it would be logical to offer at least one hypothesis.
As it turned out, in the process of resuscitation, Velma was also placed in a hypothermia unit. That is, her head was severely cooled to try to reduce brain activity and protect her from irreversible changes that threaten cardiac arrest and insufficient blood supply.
It is possible that it was cooling that saved the brain, as if “conserving” it, that is, immersing it in suspended animation. Brain cooling can also explain the fact that the devices showed no signs of life. When, after some time, the brain came out of suspended animation, it was able to completely reanimate the body.