BOCA RATON, fla. — A Florida mother is home and tending to her new infant a month after surviving without a pulse for 45 minutes after complications from a routine cesarean section.
A spokesman for Boca Raton Regional Hospital said Sunday that a team of medical workers spent three hours attempting to revive Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro, 40, after a rare amniotic fluid embolism.
Spokesman Thomas Chakurda said the doctors were preparing to pronounce her death when a blip on a monitor indicated a heartbeat. Despite going 45 minutes without a pulse, she suffered no brain damage during the Sept. 23 ordeal.
“She essentially spontaneously resuscitated when we were about to call the time of death,” said Thomas Chakurda, the hospital spokesman, who added that doctors had no explanation for her survival.
