Posted on 04/21/2023 4:01:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Texas teen suffered a cardiac arrest at a rock climbing gym and died - but miraculously two hours later he was revived after continuous CPR.
Sammy Berko, 16, was hailed as a 'literal miracle' by one of his doctors after suffering the heart attack in January.
His parents Jennifer and Craig Berko watched as Sammy rang a bell to signal his distress, but they initially believed he was just fooling around.
It quickly became clear Sammy was in trouble, with gym workers, paramedics and doctors performing two hours of CPR in a bid to revive him.
Jennifer and Craig - whose other son Frankie died aged just 16 three years ago - were distraught on being told that Sammy could not be revived, and had been pronounced dead.
Amazingly though, Sammy came around as his stricken parents began saying their final goodbyes.
'They looked at us and said, 'He's gone.' I started talking to him, just telling him how much I love him and sorry that we didn't know how to save him,' Jennifer told Fox26.
'Suddenly, as I started praying, my husband said, 'oh my gosh, he's moving.'
She told the news outlet that when the couple began yelling 'He's alive' the medical team raced back.
Jennifer said that everyone was in disbelief saying, 'never had they ever pronounced somebody and suddenly they came back five minutes later.'
'These are professionals who have been doing this their entire lives, who have seen the worst of the worst. Each and every one of them afterward came to us and said that they have never seen anything like this before. Ever,' she said.
'That feeling of seeing his heartbeat, there are no words for that. There are no words We just stood there. I mean, grateful is the biggest understatement
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rang a bell?
Incredible. Hats off to them for not giving up. I suspect many supposedly dead people could be saved if enough effort was made to save them.
usually after 40-45 min of continuous coding if you get someone back it’s not a good thing. By that time there is usually devastating neurologic injury. The exception is young people. However it is quite unusual for a heart that has been down that long to restart successfully. This poor family - they obviously have some sort of congenital heart issue to have 2 kids go down in their teen years. My heart goes out to them. hopefully they can figure out what to do for this child - probably an implanted defibrillator at a minimum
A teenager nearly dying from a cardiac arrest. This is not normal.
Though it does seem that they lost another son at the same age, so it might(?) be something genetic in this case.
WOW,
I took a CPR/EAD certificate renewal class last month. This one is really good in that we got a lot of practice in one, two, and three-person CPR (three being the best as one person does the chest compressions, one breathes, and one rests and times.)
I lift weights and get a couple of hours of decent cardio a week, and until recent sciatica ran a bit. And at TWO minutes of 30/2 (30 seconds of chest compressions, two breaths, repeat) I was wiped. Doing them properly is 75% the effort of pushups. I can’t imagine someone being able to do 30/2 for more than 5-6 minutes unless they are in ironman level shape.
The teen was diagnosed with Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), a rare genetic disorder that affects his heart
Which is what his older brother died of 3 years ago at the same age.
I think God answered thier prayers.
Depends on your definition of “normal”...his brother died at age 16 (no cause noted): “...Jennifer and Craig - whose other son Frankie died aged just 16 three years ago...”.
Heart attacks in teens were going up 2% a year prior to COVID:
A teenager nearly dying from a cardiac arrest. This is not normal.
Sure it is....just ask the FR $hot $hills.
🙃
Keep applying CPR. This is especially true if a young person is very cold. It cannot hurt to keep trying.
I remember when we had to update our CPR certificate every so often. One time the ‘trainer’ was a real stickler for following the rules and using the ‘appropriate’ language, phraseology. When approaching someone who IS NOT BREATHING, she insisted upon stating “I’ve been trained and I’m here to help you.”. We used one of those manikins. So, when it was my turn to demonstrate that I had learned it, I approached the manikin and stated “hello, I’m breathing and your not.” The trainer was not amused, but my supervisor could not stop laughing.
Sounds like he got the Damar Hamlin treatment.
PTL that this young man is alive!!
One of the mistakes people make doing CPR is to try to use their elbows to do the compressions and keep their backs more or less rigid. That is going to wipe you out quickly.
Keep your elbows locked out straight and use the weight of your upper body to do the compression and then your lower back to raise your back straight. You would be surprised how long you can go like that.
Also,
Never Give Up, Never Surrender!
That’s amazing.
Hope he does great things with his life.
Two sons at 16. Yeah, what did the other die from or was it a car accident having nothing to do with genetics. Very strange.
Doing a rock climbing wall if you get in trouble you have a disress device to get help
Very rare I think
(Happy ending that had Vivasepulature ping potential!)
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