Woman survives 45 minutes without a pulse


A Florida woman had quite the medical scare when serious complications during a caesarean section nearly killed her.
Medical workers at Boca Raton Regional Hospital spent three hours trying to revive Rudy Graupera-Cassimo, 40, from a rare amniotic fluid embolism that stopped her blood circulation and left her without a pulse.
Just as the doctors were about to pronounce Graupera-Cassimo dead, her monitor indicated that her heart was beating. They had already called in her family and said there was nothing more the medical team could do for her.
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"She essentially spontaneously resuscitated when we were about to call the time of death," Thomas Chakurda, spokesperson for the hospital, told The Associated Press.
Graupera-Cassimo suffered no brain damage from the event and gave birth to a healthy baby. Chakurda says she is now "the picture of health."
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Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.
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