Baby pronounced dead lives after hours in cooler

[Reuters]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator. </img>
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[karrie]

What a cruel trick for nature to play if this child has little chance of making it. I don't know what the likelihood of longterm survival for a child that size is in Israel, but, I don't hold out a lot of hope.

 

[#juan]

Did nature play the cruel trick, or was it the inattentive doctors? I doubt the kid has much chance of making it but I wish her well. Stranger things have happened........

 

[Kreskin]

Whether she survives or not, what a fighter that girl is. Her touching the mother will be a profound memory for mom.

 

[typingrandomstuff]

The heart can stop for a period of time and the body will still function. For example, a fish can still flip after you cut its head off. This is a natural response everybody has.

The baby's heart possibly stops a few seconds. The body is still alive. The rest of the baby's physical parts recovered quickly in the fridge and then the physical parts freeze. The announcers thought the baby is dead. The announcers announce the baby is dead. When the baby's heat is revived, the heart starts to pump again. The announcer accidentally announces the dead baby is alive again. So you see, the baby was really under the highest spasm.

It's sort of holding breathes underwater. A group of cruel and popular group decide to make fun of a person. They told the person to do the follow:
A person holds breathe and closes his or her eyes. The person tries to stop his or her heartbeat. Some actors/actress can act like they don't have heartbeats. The person lay down in the water.

The person did all of the above. The popular group buries the person with wet sand. The popular group thought the person is dead. A lifeguard digs the person's body out because he or she is bored. The lifeguard told the person that the popular group is punished and the popular group isn't really popular. The person breathes and moves. Person's heart beats. The "popular" group decide the person is magically reborn. The "popular" group tries to run away from the person.

 

[typingrandomstuff]

What happens afterwards is something I never can predict.

 

[Kreskin]

TRS, you lost me on that one. I'll have to take your word for it.

 

[typingrandomstuff]

Confusion

Will a pleasing and naive answer like: "I don't understand. The baby is dead and then alive. Wow. It must be some sort of unpredictable and weird thing." help?

 

[Kreskin]

Will a pleasing and naive answer like: "I don't understand. The baby is dead and then alive. Wow. It must be some sort of unpredictable and weird thing." help?

Either way is fine with me.

 

[typingrandomstuff]

Yay! :laughing8:

 

[lone wolf]

600 g? That's about 1 lb 4 oz? Having spent some time in 1983 in neonatal at the Hospital for Sick Children, there's a chance. Things have vastly improved since then. Weight may not be the most serious of problems. Loss of heat could well have long-lasting effect.

 

[tracy]

Things have vastly improved, but the problem is the delay in treatment. I look after kids that weight all the time, but not ones who have been left as dead very often. We did have one that was left to die with the mother because the baby's gestational age was underestimated and that baby did very well, but there was no fridge involved and that baby was breathing with a heartbeat the whole time. No heartbeat means no blood carrying oxygen to vital organs. The damage isn't often reversible.

These people were also probably off in their gestational age. 23 weekers are generally smaller than 600gms.