An Ohio man named Anthony Yahle, 37, has been declared dead but 45 minutes after the doctor’s pronouncement, he miraculously woke up.
His astonishing comeback stunned medical practitioners at the Kettering Medical Center in Kettering, Ohio. He doesn’t even suffer from brain damage or any other bad effects.
On the morning of August 5, Yahle was brought to the emergency room of the hospital for suffering a cardiac arrest and had another arrest alerting the hospital for code blue in the afternoon. A medical response team rushed to his side and performed Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitations with the aid of life-sustaining machines such as a mechanical ventilator. After 45 minutes of doing so, the diesel mechanic from West Carrollton was declared dead.
Jayne Testa, director of cardiovascular services at Kettering told NBC News that Yahle’s vital signs – heartbeat, respiration, blood pressure – were no longer there and showed a flat line in the monitor at the end of the code.
Surprisingly, in less than 10 minutes, the team saw a trace of electrical activity on the monitor where he was attached and went back to save him again. Fortunately, they succeeded and Yahle is now recovering.
A spokesperson for the American Heart Association and a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, Michael Sayre said in an interview with NBC News that comparable cases already existed. The event was, yes, unusual, but no, not unique. Sayre admitted that he doesn’t know what took place in Yahle’s case, though sometimes air gets trapped and pressure builds in the lungs during resuscitation, thus preventing blood flow to the heart.
Sayre told NBC News that the medical response team in Kettering did a great job in keeping his brain alive which was the reason for him coming back to life.
In medicine, humans are believed to survive seven minutes without blood flow to the brain if it has been froze and that is what the doctors did at Kettering which may have helped preserve his brain function.
