survival from cardiac arrest (Fox News video)

[zzyzx]

Here's a video from Fox news about a cardiac-arrest save. The guy was found dead in bed and was in a coma in the hospital for 3 weeks before waking up.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/pop...13&src=news

[MeekoBB]

:shock: That is awesome :shock:

[shannon710]

wow that is great :!:

[EMT4UPRN]

That is awesome!

[dahlio]

What we should hope for every cardiac arrest, awesome.

[DwayneEMTP]

Does anyone have more specific info on this?

I don't think it's a CORE save at this point by any stretch of the imagination. What rhythm did the medics find?

Did they really tell the wife he was 'gone', or is that what she thought their efforts meant?

Did they confirm asystole before making that statement? (If they in fact did)

By what criteria did we confirm that he was "dead" for seven minutes? The fact that seven minutes elapses between sytem activation and arrival of EMS in no way confirms that he was asystolic for the entire, or even any part of, that time.

Etc., etc., and on and on.

I'm not saying this isn't a medical miracle. I want a miracle as much as the next person, I'm simply asking you all to be a little more critical before deciding that that is what happened here.

Have a great day all!

Dwayne

[zzyzx]

I don't think it was a miracle either, just an extremely lucky guy.