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October 12th, 2009
08:51 AM ET
Cheating Death: Heart stopped for 15 minutes
Program Note: Based on Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s new book “Cheating Death,” hear about the medical miracles that are saving lives in the face of death, on a special series all this week on "American Morning."
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My father had a cardiac arrest two years ago while undergoing a colonoscopy. He was without oxygen for more than five minutes because the doctors did not realize he was losing oxygen during the procedure. He was brought to the hospital but nothing more was done to him there. If only we would've known about inducing hypothermia, he wouldnt be in a vegetative state now. He now has major brain damage.
Did anybody say if he had any injuries as a result of lack of oxygen? They never said if anything caused it ie: drugs or anything.
In 2006, at age 37, my heart stopped in Atlanta, GA shortly after packing my airplane for a flight home to Charlotte, NC. My hero was Tracy Rogers, an EMT that I met that weekend and was with me that morning. She performed CPR on me for over 28 minutes while waiting on an ambulance. My medical records say I was dead, but after her efforts, the efforts of Emory University Hospital staff and several rough months that followed, I am alive and well. This is more a story of how important our EMT's are to us and I hope to see a future story of how many lives they save each year. It's not often they get the recognition they deserve!
My husbands hearth stoped for about 15 minutes.The Medical Center of Plano here in Texas used some kind of new treatment by turning his body colder for some time and after he left the hospital he is doing very well with no brain damage at all and is considered a miracle man.