Posted on 05/23/2008 8:46:27 AM PDT by Toadman
Thomas, who lives in West Virginia, is being called a medical miracle after she suffered two heart attacks and had no brain waves for more than 17 hours; reports NewsNet5.com. Thomas’ heart stopped around 1:30 a.m. Saturday and doctors said she had no pulse. Rigor mortis started to set in, and she was placed on a respiratory machine. “Her skin had already started to harden and her fingers curled,” Thomas’ son, Jim, told NewsNet5.com. “Death had set in.”
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I agree. The story makes absolutely no sense. I’m thinking the brian wave / vital signs monitor had loose connections and rigor was not really rigor at all, but some kind of muscular spasm, induced by the hypothermia.
Lots of interesting stories from people with similar experiences!
Yea, I got that part. What doesn't make sense is that they also said that her heart wasn't beating.
Putting oxygen in and out of your lungs is meaningless unless blood is coming in and out of your lungs. Respirators are never hooked up to people that are physically dead (no heart beat). People that are brain dead (higher functions of the brain but not the stem), but still have a beating heart are often placed on a respirator for a number of reasons including allowing the family to arrive and keeping the organs alive.
She looks 110
thank goodness they didn’t rush to take her organs
This is a ridiculous story. I’m not sure what really happened, but I am sure it was nothing like what was described in this story.
that’s right.....no Drain Bamage
(loading ammo)
Don’t let her bite you!
Years of medical experimentation. A talk show circuit tour.
She had a long day. To eternity and back.
No doubt.
It’s always a good day to wake up from a slow death.
That can be very effective at saving lives and preventing brain damage. It’s why drowning victims who drowned in very cold water are much more likely to be revived successfully, than those who drowned in warmer water.
Sounds like there was plenty of brain damage involved here, but it was to the doctors involved, and well before they met Mrs. Thomas. The Fox editor that allowed this preposterous tale to be published has got some problems with his gray matter too. There is so little information in this article, and such a garbled and incomplete sequencing of the alleged events, that it’s not even clear if anything particularly unusual happened.
Somebody needs to check out that EEG machine — either it’s not working or the doctors don’t know how to hook it up or read it. Talking with a ventilator in place? Respirator hooked up when there’s no heartbeat AND rigor mortis is present? I’d steer clear of any doctors and hospitals who were involved in this (with the exception of the Cleveland Clinic doctors, who pointed out the obvious: that there was nothing wrong with this woman).
Yea, but I’ve never heard of this sort of thing being used for heart attacks.
It’s not clear to me that she had a heart attack, or for that matter that the doctors treating her had any clue what was wrong with her. There appears to be a whole lot they didn’t have a clue about. Like that their EEG machine was on the fritz and that there’s no point hooking somebody up to a ventilator if they have no pulse. The article makes no sense at all, so I’m not even trying to figure out what really happened.
Good point! ;~)
LOLOL!! Rolling!
ping
Yeah, this is strange reporting. I’d like to know her body temperature when RM ‘set in’, and the temp when she ‘woke up’.
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