A man who was declared dead has returned to life hours after
The 90-year-old patient was taken to the hospital for treatment on September 1. In the early hours of the following morning, he suffered cardio-respiratory arrest.
After a series of apparently failed resuscitation attempts, the elderly man remained unresponsive and was pronounced de.ad in the emergency room. But this wasn’t the end of his story.
After the patient was wheeled to the morgue, things took an unexpected turn, and it soon became clear that the ‘corpse’ was showing vital signs.
Loved ones arrived at the morgue, located in the Brazilian municipality of Palmeira dos Índios, at around 6am that day to say their final goodbyes. They could never have imagined the events that would unfold next.
To their great surprise, one relative noticed that the ‘body’ of their family member was in fact still breathing. Penedo FM reports that an examination then followed, which confirmed that the supposedly deceased patient was indeed breathing and also had a pulse.
After being released from the morgue, the man was once again hospitalised at the UPA emergency care unit, where he remained unresponsive and sadly d!ed during the early hours of the morning.
This rare occurrence sparked shockwaves across the hospital and the wider local community, raising questions as to how this could have been occurred.
Addressing the disturbing incident in a statement released last week, the UPA management clarified that “no technical, medical or nursing errors had been identified in the patient’s care”, and that all protocols had been followed.
The unit also emphasised its willingness to co-operate with authorities to determine what exactly happened, agreeing that the case should now be analysed by expert organisations, such as the Patient Safety Unit and the D8ath Review Committee.
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Oh dear!
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