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Doctors Brand Texas Boy a 'Miracle' as He's Revived After Two HOURS of Continuous CPR Following Heart Attack on Climbing Wall
Daily Mail ^ | 19 April 2023 | RUTH BASHINSKY

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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: cpr; diedsuddenly; donatefreerepublic; heartattack; thegrimfreeper
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To: mylife
That's a long time to be humming "Another One Bites the Dust" to yourself.
21 posted on 04/21/2023 7:21:17 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

There had to be more than one person doing compressions. done right it is very rare to be able to do high quality compressions more than 1-2 2 mi ute cycles in a row


22 posted on 04/21/2023 7:50:41 PM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: Drago

But the usual crowd with no reading skills are here to blame the vaccine and call those who actually read the article names because that’s all they got


23 posted on 04/21/2023 7:52:00 PM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: Mom MD

joke
noun ˈjōk
something said or done to cause laughter especially : a brief story with a humorous twist


24 posted on 04/21/2023 7:53:59 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

sorry. I had just read the reply about putting your back into it and you can go a long time. just not true but i should have replied to that one not yours. 😃


25 posted on 04/21/2023 7:56:18 PM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: agere_contra

Coulda been worse. He coulda got COVID-19.


26 posted on 04/22/2023 5:54:57 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: Clay Moore

Proper CPR literally can (and does in most cases) breaks ribs. I’d rather recuperate from broken ribs than not recuperate at all.


27 posted on 04/22/2023 8:07:29 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: Clay Moore

Yes, good points.

This was using one of those new dummies that can tell you if you are doing the compressions deeply enough; MUCH more rigorous. Several of the smaller females had genuine difficulty. Very eye-opening.

Doing it with enough force is pretty hard if you’re doing it right. One thing that was very useful was learning how to do it with two people and switching every 1.5 minutes.


28 posted on 04/22/2023 8:29:49 AM PDT by Aeneas2112 (YOU are your own first responder)
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