MIRACLE OR NOT JUST UNBELIEVABLE

[cuznjohn]

not really sure if i should post this but it is unbelievable

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013...art-activity/UPI-95541377173194/?spt=hs&or=tn

 

[spydaman60]

I just watched this on the news. it is truly unexplainable. as George carlin once said, " we are all a cassette in the tape deck of life. some of us are long playing, some of us are short playing and some of us have to get :cus:ing rewound". I guess he was getting rewound!

 

[ARtraveler]

Stranger things have happened--but not very often.

 

[Doktor]

When I was teaching pr4actical nursing for the Army, one of my favorite patients on the ICU was a guy that had fallen into a crowded swimming pool on a 4th of July weekend, he had been under the water for 35 minutes and no one notice him there, his watch had been broken when he fell into the water, which was how it was determined how long he'd been in the water. Someone finally saw him in the pool and brought him up. They started CPR, while EMS was enroute. He survived, most likely because the pool water was much cooler than his body temperature. He was the perfect example of something I'd always said, they aren't dead till they are warm and dead.
He stayed in the ICU to rid his lungs of the damage by inhaling the pool chlorine in the water. I used him to give my students the desire to not give up on care, just because it took too long. He, the patient, was always ready to tell my students about how his life was given back to him on that day!


Doc

 

[Bob Denman]

I would assume that they were "working" onhim during at least a decent portion of the time in question...
That would have meant that air was getting pumped in, and his blood was being circulated in some fashion...
But it is pretty darn amazing!
I'm glad that he made it; he seems like a real nice guy!

 

[Doktor]

I would assume that they were "working" onhim during at least a decent portion of the time in question...
That would have meant that air was getting pumped in, and his blood was being circulated in some fashion...
But it is pretty darn amazing!
I'm glad that he made it; he seems like a real nice guy!

Our hospital was a teaching facility, not just for nursing, but, interns, residents, and fellows. The military has often been used by each other for learning situations. If you have been in the military you start out right away, they call them "battle buddies" now, he covers you, and you covers his.
The worst training situation I was involved in was when I was teaching one of my students how to insert a naso-gastric tube, I had just done one on a patient to evacuate his stomach contents, and I needed for the student to learn the procedure, his demonstration dummy was ME, he was trying to be so gentle, and the tube was right at my gag reflex, I couldn't talk, and the civilian LPN that was helping me out was laughing so hard, he couldn't tell the student to go faster, I can look back on it now and laugh, but at the time, I wanted to do the same thing to the student, but they frown on cruel and unusual punishment. Would I do it again, probably not, but after he got the tube down, and was able to do it well, I guess it was worth it. Funny thing is I ran into him in Korea at the 121 Evac Hospital. And you thought that was a fictitious place made up by the TV program MASH, actually my last assignment after I got back from Korea was with a MASH unit at FT. Riley, KS.


Doc