Believed to be clinically dead for 30 minutes, a baby boy came back to life thanks to heart massage. A “miracle” that doctors do not explain.
While the Christians of the world celebrated a few days ago, the miraculous birth of Jesus, it is another miracle that the Canadian press tells us this Wednesday. In The Journal of Quebec, journalists report the story of a 3-year-old child, clinically deceased, then resuscitated. This is little Liam, now 4 years old. He came back to life after 30 minutes of heart massage. Even if it is not a record, the event leaves his doctors without explanation.
United States: she comes back to life after 45min of cardiac arrest
At the end of 2014, after a nightmarish childbirth, Ruby Graupera-Cassimir, a 40-year-old American, lost consciousness and was almost declared dead. After 45 minutes of cardiac arrest she woke up. Unheard of for its doctors.
In this story, everything goes back precisely to last June. On this date, Liam suffers from severe attacks of vomiting. His parents logically think of a simple gastroenteritis. But after three days, the symptoms did not pass, they decided to take him to the emergency room at the Montreal Hospital. The doctors make the same diagnosis as the parents, and opt for a home referral of the young patient. And this is where things get worse.
From beating his heart has stopped
“After two days he was super dehydrated and he was not having a bowel movement. So we took him back to the hospital! », Says Véronique Aglat, her mother, in the Quebec daily newspaper.
Without hesitation, the practitioners then decide to intubate it in order to rehydrate it. But that’s when the worst happens, Liam goes into cardiac arrest. “He was very fragile and very dehydrated. With the stress, his heart completely stopped, ”explained to the Canadian media Dr. Tanya Di Genova, who performed the cardiac massage on the boy.
Like the other doctors, she observed the child for a while in a state of clinical death. Except that after 30 minutes of stopping, Liam’s heart started again. “The child was dead, but his heart started beating again,” she said in the newspaper.
One month of hospitalization
Investigations subsequently show that Liam was in fact suffering from an acute intussusception, a pathology where the organ folds in on itself, one segment of his intestine penetrating another. The child was therefore operated on urgently and the doctors removed 40 centimeters of intestine. A long month of hospitalization will follow.
Fortunately, six months after this episode, the child does not seem to have any real after-effects. “He speaks slowly and he gets caught up in something (Editor’s note) sometimes when he runs, but I really feel like he’s in great shape. This is also the miracle ”, rejoices his mother, concluding in The Journal of Quebec, “It is incredible, he is truly blessed”.
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